Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

Thy cheeks are comely with plaits of hair , Thy neck with strings of jewels.

New American Standard Bible

“Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments,
Your neck with strings of beads.”

King James Version

Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.

Holman Bible

Your cheeks are beautiful with jewelry,
your neck with its necklace.

International Standard Version

Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.

A Conservative Version

Thy cheeks are comely with plaits [of hair], thy neck with strings of jewels.

Amplified


“Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments,
Your neck with strings of jewels.”

Bible in Basic English

Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with chains of jewels.

Darby Translation

Thy cheeks are comely with bead-rows, Thy neck with ornamental chains.

Julia Smith Translation

Thy cheeks were beautiful with with rows, thy neck with strings of pearls.

King James 2000

Your cheeks are lovely with rows of jewels, your neck with chains of gold.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.

Modern King James verseion

Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with chains.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Then shall thy cheeks and thy neck be made fair, and hanged with spangles and goodly jewels:

NET Bible

Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments; your neck is lovely with strings of jewels.

New Heart English Bible

Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.

The Emphasized Bible

Comely are thy cheeks, with bead-rows, thy neck, with strings of gems.

Webster

Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.

World English Bible

Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.

Youngs Literal Translation

Comely have been thy cheeks with garlands, Thy neck with chains.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
לחי 
L@chiy 
Usage: 21

נאה 
Na'ah 
Usage: 3

with rows
תּר תּור 
Towr 
Usage: 4

צוּארה צוּרן צוּר צוּאר 
Tsavva'r 
Usage: 43

with chains
חרוּז 
Charuwz 
Usage: 1

References

Verse Info

Context Readings

Man's Poetic Praise Of His Beloved

9 I have compared thee, O my love, To a steed in Pharaoh's chariots. 10 Thy cheeks are comely with plaits of hair , Thy neck with strings of jewels. 11 We will make thee plaits of gold With studs of silver.



Cross References

Song of Songs 5:13

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, As banks of sweet herbs: His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

Ezekiel 16:11-13

And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

Genesis 24:22

And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,

Genesis 24:47

And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him. And I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands.

Genesis 41:42

And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

Numbers 31:50

And we have brought Jehovah's oblation, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, ankle-chains, and bracelets, signet-rings, ear-rings, and armlets, to make atonement for our souls before Jehovah.

Proverbs 1:9

For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.

Song of Songs 4:9

Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my bride; Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.

Isaiah 3:18-21

In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, and the cauls, and the crescents;

Isaiah 61:10

I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with a garland, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

1 Peter 3:4

but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

2 Peter 1:3-4

seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue;

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