Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.”

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.

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 To my joyous one in chariots of Pharaoh, I have compared thee, my friend, 10 Comely have been thy cheeks with garlands, Thy neck with chains. 11 Garlands of gold we do make for thee, With studs of silver!

Cross References

Song of Songs 5:13

His cheeks as a bed of the spice, towers of perfumes, His lips are lilies, dropping flowing myrrh,

Ezekiel 16:11-13

And I adorn thee with adornments, And I give bracelets for thy hands, And a chain for thy neck.

Genesis 24:22

And it cometh to pass when the camels have finished drinking, that the man taketh a golden ring (whose weight is a bekah), and two bracelets for her hands (whose weight is ten bekahs of gold),

Genesis 24:47

And I ask her, and say, Whose daughter art thou? and she saith, Daughter of Bethuel, son of Nahor, whom Milcah hath borne to him, and I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands,

Genesis 41:42

And Pharaoh turneth aside his seal-ring from off his hand, and putteth it on the hand of Joseph, and clotheth him with garments of fine linen, and placeth a chain of gold on his neck,

Numbers 31:50

and we bring near Jehovah's offering, each that which he hath found, vessels of gold -- chain, and bracelet, seal-ring, ear -ring, and bead -- to make atonement for ourselves before Jehovah.'

Proverbs 1:9

For a graceful wreath are they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.

Song of Songs 4:9

Thou hast emboldened me, my sister-spouse, Emboldened me with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.

Isaiah 3:18-21

In that day doth the Lord turn aside The beauty of the tinkling ornaments, And of the embroidered works, And of the round tires like moons,

Isaiah 61:10

I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.

1 Peter 3:4

but -- the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

2 Peter 1:3-4

As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,

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