Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

We have a little sister, and she has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

New American Standard Bible

We have a little sister,
And she has no breasts;
What shall we do for our sister
On the day when she is spoken for?

King James Version

We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

Holman Bible

B Our sister is young;
she has no breasts.
What will we do for our sister
on the day she is spoken for?

International Standard Version

We have a little sister, and she has not yet reached maturity. What will we do for our sister to prepare her for her engagement?

A Conservative Version

We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

American Standard Version

We have a little sister, And she hath no breasts: What shall we do for our sister In the day when she shall be spoken for?

Amplified

(The Chorus)
“We have a little sister
And she has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister
On the day when she is spoken for [in marriage]?

Bible in Basic English

We have a young sister, and she has no breasts; what are we to do for our sister in the day when she is given to a man?

Darby Translation

We have a little sister, And she hath no breasts: What shall we do for our sister In the day when she shall be spoken for? --

Julia Smith Translation

A little sister to us, and no breasts to her: what shall we do for our sister in the day it shall be spoken for her?

King James 2000

We have a little sister, and she has no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

Lexham Expanded Bible

{We have a little sister}, {and she does not yet have any breasts}. What should we do for our sister {on the day when she is betrothed}?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Our sister is but young, and hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister when she shall be spoken for?

NET Bible

The Beloved's Brothers: We have a little sister, and as yet she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for?

New Heart English Bible

We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for?

The Emphasized Bible

THEYA sister, have we, a little one, and, breasts, hath she none, What shall we do for our sister, in the day when she may be spoken for?

Webster

We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

World English Bible

We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for?

Youngs Literal Translation

We have a little sister, and breasts she hath not, What do we do for our sister, In the day that it is told of her?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
We have a little
קטן קטן 
Qatan 
Usage: 101

אחות 
'achowth 
Usage: 114

and she hath no breasts
שׁד שׁד 
Shad 
Usage: 24

אחות 
'achowth 
Usage: 114

in the day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

References

Verse Info

Context Readings

Maiden's Virtuous Chastity And Voluptuous Beauty

7 Many waters cannot quench love, nor will the rivers overflow it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be scorned. 8 We have a little sister, and she has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? 9 If she is a wall, we will build on her a palace of silver; and if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.


Cross References

Psalm 2:8

Ask of Me, and I shall give the nations for Your inheritance; and the uttermost parts of the earth for Your possession.

Psalm 72:17-19

His name shall endure forever; His name shall be continued as long as the sun; and men shall be blessed in Him; all nations shall call Him blessed.

Psalm 147:19-20

He shows His Word to Jacob, His Precepts and His judgments to Israel.

Song of Songs 4:5

Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, feeding among the lilies.

Song of Songs 7:3

Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

Song of Songs 8:10

I was a wall, and my breasts like towers; then I was in His eyes as one finding peace.

Isaiah 49:6

And He said, It is but a little thing that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to bring back the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You for a light to the nations, to be My salvation to the end of the earth.

Isaiah 60:1-5

Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah has risen on you.

Isaiah 60:10-11

And the sons of strangers will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you; for in My wrath I struck you, but in My favor I had mercy on you.

Ezekiel 16:7

I have caused you to multiply like the bud of the field, and you are grown, and you are great; and you come in the finest ornaments. Your breasts are formed, and hair is grown, yet you were naked and bare.

Ezekiel 16:46

And your older sister is Samaria, she and her daughters who dwell at your left hand. And your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

Ezekiel 16:55-56

When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, then you and your daughters shall return to your former state.

Ezekiel 16:61

And you shall remember your ways and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your older and your younger. And I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.

Ezekiel 23:33

with drunkenness and sorrow you are filled, the cup of horror and ruin, the cup of your sister Samaria.

Luke 19:44

And they will tear you down, and your children within you, and will not leave a stone on a stone because you did not know the time of your visitation.

John 10:16

And I have other sheep who are not of this fold. I must also lead those, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one Shepherd.

Acts 7:38

This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him in Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received the living words to give to us,

Acts 10:1-18

And a certain man named Cornelius was in Caesarea, a centurion of the Italian cohort,

Acts 15:14-17

Even as Simon has declared how God at the first visited the nations to take out of them a people for His name.

Acts 16:9

And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A certain man of Macedonia stood, begging him, saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us!

Acts 22:21

And He said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the nations.

Acts 26:17-18

delivering you from the people and the nations, to whom I now send you

Romans 3:1-2

Then what is the superiority of the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

Romans 10:12-15

For there is no difference both of Jew and of Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call on Him.

Romans 15:9-12

and that the nations might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written, "For this cause I will confess to You in the nations, and I will praise Your name."

Ephesians 2:12-15

and that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.

Ephesians 2:19-22

Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

1 Peter 2:12

having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of His visitation, seeing your good works.

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