Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard, New Living Translation Your thighs shelter a paradise of pomegranates with rare spices— henna with nard, English Standard Version Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard, Berean Standard Bible Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard, King James Bible Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, New King James Version Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates With pleasant fruits, Fragrant henna with spikenard, New American Standard Bible “Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates With delicious fruits, henna with nard plants, NASB 1995 “Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates With choice fruits, henna with nard plants, NASB 1977 “Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates With choice fruits, henna with nard plants, Legacy Standard Bible Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates With choice fruits, henna with nard plants, Amplified Bible “Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, [A paradise] with precious fruits, henna with fragrant plants, Christian Standard Bible Your branches are a paradise of pomegranates with choicest fruits; henna with nard, Holman Christian Standard Bible Your branches are a paradise of pomegranates with choicest fruits, henna with nard— American Standard Version Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants, Aramaic Bible in Plain English Your nudity is a paradise of pomegranates with the fruit of produce; henna flower with spikenard Brenton Septuagint Translation Thy shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; camphor, with spikenard: Contemporary English Version Your arms are vines, covered with delicious fruits and all sorts of spices--henna, nard, Douay-Rheims Bible Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard. English Revised Version Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits; henna with spikenard plants, GOD'S WORD® Translation You are paradise that produces pomegranates and the best fruits, henna flowers and nard, Good News Translation there the plants flourish. They grow like an orchard of pomegranate trees and bear the finest fruits. There is no lack of henna and nard, International Standard Version Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with choice fruit, henna with nard, JPS Tanakh 1917 Thy shoots are a park of pomegranates, With precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants, Literal Standard Version Your shoots a paradise of pomegranates, | With precious fruits, Majority Standard Bible Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard, New American Bible Your branches are a grove of pomegranates, with fruits of choicest yield: Henna with spikenard, NET Bible Your shoots are a royal garden full of pomegranates with choice fruits: henna with nard, New Revised Standard Version Your channel is an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard, New Heart English Bible Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants, Webster's Bible Translation Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphor, with spikenard, World English Bible Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants, Young's Literal Translation Thy shoots a paradise of pomegranates, With precious fruits, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Solomon Admires His Bride…12My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed. 13Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard, 14with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.… Cross References Ecclesiastes 2:5 I made gardens and parks for myself, where I planted all kinds of fruit trees. Song of Solomon 1:14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi. Song of Solomon 2:3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste. Song of Solomon 4:16 Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind. Breathe on my garden and spread the fragrance of its spices. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choicest fruits. Song of Solomon 6:11 I went down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding or the pomegranates were in bloom. Song of Solomon 7:12 Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom--there I will give you my love. Song of Solomon 7:13 The mandrakes send forth a fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, new as well as old, that I have treasured up for you, my beloved. Treasury of Scripture Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, are Song of Solomon 6:11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. Song of Solomon 7:12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. Song of Solomon 8:2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. pleasant Song of Solomon 6:2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. camphire Song of Solomon 4:14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: Song of Solomon 1:14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi. spikenard Song of Solomon 1:12 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof. Mark 14:3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. John 12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. Jump to Previous Best Camphire Camphor Choice Choicest Fruits Garden Henna Nard Orchard Paradise Park Plants Pleasant Pomegranates Precious Produce Shoots SpikenardJump to Next Best Camphire Camphor Choice Choicest Fruits Garden Henna Nard Orchard Paradise Park Plants Pleasant Pomegranates Precious Produce Shoots SpikenardSong of Solomon 4 1. Christ sets forth the graces of the church8. He shows forth his love to her 16. The church prays to be made fit for his presence (13) Thy plants.--Some have thought the offspring of the marriage intended here; but the poet is plainly, by a new adaptation of the language of flowers, describing the charms of the person of his beloved. Orchard.--Heb. pardes; LXX. ??????????; found only elsewhere in Nehemiah 2:8 (where see Note), Ecclesiastes 2:5. The pomegranate was perhaps an emblem of love, having been held sacred to the Syrian Venus. (See Tristram, Nat. Hist. of Bible, p. 389.) Camphire.--See Note, Song of Solomon 1:14. Verses 13, 14. - Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits; henna with spikenard plants, spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices. Thy shoots; i.e. that which comes forth from thee, thy plants, or, as Bottcher puts it, "all the phenomena and life utterances of her personality." All the plants had their meaning in flower language. They are mostly exotics. But it is difficult now to suggest meanings, though they may have been familiar to Jewish readers at the time. The pardes, "park, or enclosure," was adorned especially with foreign and fragrant plants of great beauty. It is an Old Persian word, perhaps, as Delitzsch suggests, from pairi (Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Your branchesשְׁלָחַ֙יִךְ֙ (šə·lā·ḥa·yiḵ) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular Strong's 7973: A missile of attack, spear, a shoot of growth, branch [are] an orchard פַּרְדֵּ֣ס (par·dês) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 6508: A preserve, park of pomegranates רִמּוֹנִ֔ים (rim·mō·w·nîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 7416: A pomegranate, the tree, the fruit with עִ֖ם (‘im) Preposition Strong's 5973: With, equally with the choicest מְגָדִ֑ים (mə·ḡā·ḏîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4022: A distinguished thing, something valuable, as a, product, fruit of fruits, פְּרִ֣י (pə·rî) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 6529: Fruit with henna כְּפָרִ֖ים (kə·p̄ā·rîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 3724: A cover, a village, bitumen, the henna plant, a redemption-price [and] עִם־ (‘im-) Preposition Strong's 5973: With, equally with nard, נְרָדִֽים׃ (nə·rā·ḏîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 5373: Nard, an aromatic Links Song of Solomon 4:13 NIVSong of Solomon 4:13 NLT Song of Solomon 4:13 ESV Song of Solomon 4:13 NASB Song of Solomon 4:13 KJV Song of Solomon 4:13 BibleApps.com Song of Solomon 4:13 Biblia Paralela Song of Solomon 4:13 Chinese Bible Song of Solomon 4:13 French Bible Song of Solomon 4:13 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Song of Solomon 4:13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates (Song Songs SS So Can) |