Songs 4:10
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How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! thy breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the sweet smell of thy ointments above all aromatical spices.

love

Songs 1:2 Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee.

how much

Songs 1:2,4 Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee. . . .

the smell

Songs 1:3,12 Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the rightous love thee. . . .

Songs 3:6 Who 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?

Songs 5:5 I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.

2 Corinthians 1:21,22 Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath anointed us, is God: . . .

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,

Philippians 4:18 But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

Revelation 5:8 And when he had opened the book, the four living creatures and the four and twenty ancients fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

Context
Solomon Admires His Bride
9Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck. 10How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! thy breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the sweet smell of thy ointments above all aromatical spices.11Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments, as the smell of frankincense.…
Cross References
Songs 1:2
Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee.

Songs 1:3
Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the rightous love thee.

Songs 1:4
I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Songs 4:9
Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck.

Songs 7:6
How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my dearest, in delights!

Lexicon
How
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

delightful
יָּפ֥וּ (yā·p̄ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3302: To be bright, beautiful

[is] your love,
דֹדַ֖יִךְ (ḏō·ḏa·yiḵ)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1730: To love, a love-token, lover, friend, an uncle

my sister,
אֲחֹתִ֣י (’ă·ḥō·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 269: Sister -- a sister

my bride.
כַלָּ֑ה (ḵal·lāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3618: Daughter-in-law, bride

Your love
דֹדַ֙יִךְ֙ (ḏō·ḏa·yiḵ)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1730: To love, a love-token, lover, friend, an uncle

is much
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

better
טֹּ֤בוּ (ṭō·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2895: To be pleasing or good

than wine,
מִיַּ֔יִן (mî·ya·yin)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3196: Wine, intoxication

and the fragrance
וְרֵ֥יחַ (wə·rê·aḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7381: To smell, perceive odor

of your perfume
שְׁמָנַ֖יִךְ (šə·mā·na·yiḵ)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8081: Grease, liquid, richness

than all
מִכָּל־ (mik·kāl)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

spices.
בְּשָׂמִֽים׃ (bə·śā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1314: Fragrance, spicery, the balsam plant


Additional Translations
How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride. Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is your love than wine! and the smell of your ointments than all spices!

How fair is thy love, my sister, my bride! How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine oils than all manner of spices!

How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! how much more beautiful are thy breasts than wine, and the smell of thy garments than all spices!

How fair is thy love, my sister, [my] spouse! How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine ointments than all spices!

How fair is thy love, my sister, my bride! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all manner of spices!

How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thy ointments than all spices!

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

How wonderful have been thy loves, my sister-spouse, How much better have been thy loves than wine, And the fragrance of thy perfumes than all spices.
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