Song of Solomon 5:5

and my hands dropped&c. Rather, while my hands dropped myrrh. sweet smelling myrrh Heb. môr -ôbhçr, lit. flowing myrrh, is that which flows out from the bark of the myrrh shrub of itself, and is specially valued, cp. Song of Solomon 5:13. It is called also môr dĕrôr, -freely flowing myrrh" (Exodus 30:23).

the handles of the lock R.V. the handles of the bolt. Some commentators, e.g. Delitzsch, suppose that the person who knocks has put the myrrh upon the bolt as an offering to the Shulammite, but the phrase, "my hands dropped myrrh upon," &c., implies that the myrrh was not on the bolt before she tried to open the door. Of course in real life she would not drop myrrh upon the bolts, but in a dream she might imagine it, especially when she was in unusual circumstances and surrounded by unwonted luxury. Probably she had been anointing herself with perfumes before she went to sleep. Budde thinks that the text is in disorder here and would read,

"I arose to open to my beloved,

[And laid hold upon] the handles of the bolt,

While my hands dropped myrrh,

And my fingers flowing myrrh."

Siegfried would strike out, "upon the handles of the bolt," as a gloss, and would leave the rest as it stands. Neither change seems necessary.