Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

The beams of our house are cedars, our rafters are firs.

New American Standard Bible

“The beams of our houses are cedars,
Our rafters, cypresses.

King James Version

The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

Holman Bible

the beams of our house are cedars,
and our rafters are cypresses.


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International Standard Version

The beams of our house are cedar, our rafters are pine.

American Standard Version

The beams of our house are cedars, And our rafters are firs.

Amplified


“The beams of our houses are cedars,
Our rafters and panels are cypresses.

Bible in Basic English

Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.

Darby Translation

The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters are cypresses.

Julia Smith Translation

The walls of our houses cedars, our carved ceilings, cypresses.

King James 2000

The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

Lexham Expanded Bible

the beams of our house [are] cedar; our rafter [is] cypress.

Modern King James verseion

The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters are of fir.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

the ceilings of our house are of Cedar tree, and our balks of Cypress.

NET Bible

the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber; the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.

New Heart English Bible

The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs.

The Emphasized Bible

The beams of our house, are cedars, Our fretted ceiling, is cypress-trees.

Webster

The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

World English Bible

The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. Beloved

Youngs Literal Translation

The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters are firs, I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys!

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The beams
קרה קורה 
Qowrah 
Usage: 5

of our house
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

ארז 
'erez 
Usage: 73

and our rafters
רחיטo 
R@chiyt 
Usage: 1

References

American

Fir

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Mutual Admiration

16 Behold, thou are fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant. Also our couch is green. 17 The beams of our house are cedars, our rafters are firs.



Cross References

1 Kings 6:9

So he built the house, and finished it. And he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

2 Chronicles 2:8-9

Send to me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon. For I know that thy servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

Psalm 92:12

A righteous man shall flourish like the palm tree. He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Song of Songs 7:5

Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple. The king is held captive in the tresses.

Song of Songs 8:9

If she is a wall, we will build upon her a turret of silver. And if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

Ezekiel 41:16

the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, opposite the threshold, paneled with wood round about, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),

Ezekiel 42:3

Opposite the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.

1 Timothy 3:15-16

but if I delay, that thou may know how it is necessary to live in a house of God, which is a congregation of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Hebrews 11:10

For he anticipated the city that has the foundations, whose builder and architect is God.

1 Peter 2:4-5

Coming to whom, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but with God chosen, precious,

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