Song-of-solomon 1:3
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Because of the smell of your good ointments your name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love you.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Because of the smell of your good ointments your name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love you.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Thine oils have a goodly fragrance; Thy name is as oil poured forth; Therefore do the virgins love thee.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.
Webster's Revision
Because of the savor of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
World English Bible
Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, therefore the virgins love you.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Thine ointments have a goodly fragrance; thy name is as ointment poured forth; therefore do the virgins love thee.
Definitions for Song-of-solomon 1:3
Clarke's Song-of-solomon 1:3 Bible Commentary
Thy name is as ointment poured forth - Ointments and perfumes were, and still are, in great request among the Asiatics. They occur constantly in their entertainments. Thy name is as refreshing to my heart, as the best perfumes diffused through a chamber are to the senses of the guests.
Therefore do the virgins love thee - She means herself; but uses this periphrasis through modesty.
Barnes's Song-of-solomon 1:3 Bible Commentary
Because ... - Better, For fragrance are thine ointments good, making with the clause that follows two steps of a climax: "thy perfumes are good, thy name the best of all perfumes." "Ointments" here are unguents or fragrant oils largely used for anointing at entertainments (compare Psalm 23:5; Luke 7:46; John 12:3).
Thy name ... poured forth - As unguents are the sweeter for diffusion, so the king's name the wider it is known.
Wesley's Song-of-solomon 1:3 Bible Commentary
1:3 Ointments - Because of those excellent gifts and graces of God's Spirit wherewith thou art replenished. Thy name - Thy report, the very mention of thee, and all those things by which thou makest thyself known to men, thy word, particularly thine offers of pardon and salvation to sinners; and all thy works, especially that great work of redemption is most acceptable, and refreshing. The virgins - called the companions of the bride, Psalms 45:14 , particular believers, who are called virgins, 11:2 so 1: , Revelation 14:4 , who have their senses exercised to perceive this sweetness and fulness of Christ.