Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

American Standard 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.”

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 made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages. 10 Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with chains of jewels. 11 We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.

Cross References

Song of Songs 5:13

His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

Ezekiel 16:11-13

And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.

Genesis 24:22

And when the camels had had enough, the man took a gold nose-ring, half a shekel in weight, and two ornaments for her arms of ten shekels weight of gold;

Genesis 24:47

And questioning her, I said, Whose daughter are you? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, and Milcah his wife. Then I put the ring on her nose and the ornaments on her hands.

Genesis 41:42

Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and he had him clothed with the best linen, and put a chain of gold round his neck;

Numbers 31:50

And we have here an offering for the Lord from what every man took in the war, ornaments of gold, leg-chains and arm-rings, finger-rings, ear-rings, and neck-ornaments, to make our souls free from sin before the Lord.

Proverbs 1:9

For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

Song of Songs 4:9

You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!

Isaiah 3:18-21

In that day the Lord will take away the glory of their foot-rings, and their sun-jewels, and their moon-ornaments,

Isaiah 61:10

I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.

1 Peter 3:4

But let them be those of the unseen man of the heart, the ever-shining ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the eyes of God.

2 Peter 1:3-4

Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;

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