Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

My sister, my bride, you are a locked garden—
a locked garden and a sealed spring.

New American Standard Bible

“A garden locked is my sister, my bride,
A rock garden locked, a spring sealed up.

King James Version

A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

International Standard Version

My sister, my bride, is a locked garden a locked rock garden, a sealed up spring.

American Standard Version

A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

Amplified


“A garden enclosed is my sister, my [promised] bride—
A rock garden locked, a spring sealed up.

Bible in Basic English

A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.

Darby Translation

A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

Julia Smith Translation

A garden shut up, my sister, O bride; a reservoir shut up, a fountain sealed.

King James 2000

A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

Lexham Expanded Bible

A garden locked [is] my sister bride, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.

Modern King James verseion

A locked garden is My sister, My spouse; a rock heap locked up, a fountain sealed.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou art a well kept garden, O my sister, my spouse, thou are a well kept watering spring, and a sealed well.

NET Bible

The Lover to His Beloved: You are a locked garden, my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.

New Heart English Bible

A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

The Emphasized Bible

A garden barred, is my sister, bride, - a spring barred, a fountain sealed:

Webster

A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

World English Bible

A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

Youngs Literal Translation

A garden shut up is my sister-spouse, A spring shut up -- a fountain sealed.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
A garden
גּן 
Gan 
Usage: 43

נעל 
Na`al 
Usage: 8

is my sister
אחות 
'achowth 
Usage: 114

my spouse
כּלּה 
Kallah 
Usage: 34

a spring
גּל 
Gal 
Usage: 34

shut up
נעל 
Na`al 
Usage: 8

מעינה מעינו מעין 
Ma`yan 
Usage: 23

Verse Info

Context Readings

The Locked Garden Of Delights Is Unlocked

11 Your lips drip sweetness like the honeycomb, my bride.
Honey and milk are under your tongue.
The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
12 My sister, my bride, you are a locked garden—
a locked garden and a sealed spring.
13 Your branches are a paradise of pomegranates
with choicest fruits,
henna with nard—

Cross References

Proverbs 5:15-18

Drink water from your own cistern,
water flowing from your own well.

Genesis 29:3

When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the opening of the well and water the sheep. The stone was then placed back on the well’s opening.

Song of Songs 6:2

W My love has gone down to his garden,
to beds of spice,
to feed in the gardens
and gather lilies.

Song of Songs 6:11

W I came down to the walnut grove
to see the blossoms of the valley,
to see if the vines were budding
and the pomegranates blooming.

Isaiah 58:11

The Lord will always lead you,
satisfy you in a parched land,
and strengthen your bones.
You will be like a watered garden
and like a spring whose waters never run dry.

Isaiah 61:10-11

I greatly rejoice in the Lord,
I exult in my God;
for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation
and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness,
as a groom wears a turban
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Jeremiah 31:12

They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion;
they will be radiant with joy
because of the Lord’s goodness,
because of the grain, the new wine, the fresh oil,
and because of the young of the flocks and herds.
Their life will be like an irrigated garden,
and they will no longer grow weak from hunger.

Hosea 6:3

Let us strive to know the Lord.
His appearance is as sure as the dawn.
He will come to us like the rain,
like the spring showers that water the land.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both of them. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Don’t you know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

1 Corinthians 7:34

and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

2 Corinthians 1:22

He has also sealed us and given us the Spirit as a down payment in our hearts.

Ephesians 1:13

When you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed in Him, you were also sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 4:30

And don’t grieve God’s Holy Spirit. You were sealed by Him for the day of redemption.

Revelation 7:3

“Don’t harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we seal the slaves of our God on their foreheads.”

Revelation 21:27

Nothing profane will ever enter it: no one who does what is vile or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.

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