THEOSISProverbs 7:17Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
נַ֥פְתִּי מִשְׁכָּבִ֑י מֹ֥ר אֲ֝הָלִ֗ים וְקִנָּמֽוֹן׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ps 45 (44):8
- Song 4:13Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard.
- Song 4:14Spikenard and saffron, sweet cane and cinnamon, with all the trees of Libanus, myrrh and aloes with all the chief perfumes.
- Ex 30:23Saying: Take spices, of principal and chosen myrrh five hundred sicles, and of cinnamon half so much; that is, two hundred and fifty sicles, of calamus in like manner two hundred and fifty,
- Song 3:6Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as a pillar of smoke of aromatical spices, of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all the powders of the perfumer?
- Isa 57:7Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to offer victims.
- Isa 57:9And thou hast adorned thyself for the king with ointment, and hast multiplied thy perfumes. Thou hast sent thy messengers far off, and wast debased even to hell.