Parallel Verses

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.

Holman Bible

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

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, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon. 12 “A garden locked is my sister, my bride,
A rock garden locked, a spring sealed up.
13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with ointment,

Cross References

Proverbs 5:15-18

Drink water from your own cistern. Drink running water from your own well.

Genesis 29:3

When all the flocks came together there, the shepherds would roll the stone back and water them. Then they would put the stone back in place.

Song of Songs 6:2

(The Shulamite) My beloved went to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Song of Songs 6:11

(The Shulamite) I went down into the garden of nut trees to see the fruits of the valley, to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.

Isaiah 58:11

Jehovah will continually guide you. He will satisfy your desire in scorched places and give strength to your bones. You will be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.

Isaiah 61:10-11

I will rejoice greatly in Jehovah. I will exult in my God for he has clothed me with garments of salvation. He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Jeremiah 31:12

They will come and shout for joy on top of Mount Zion. They will stream to it to enjoy Jehovah's blessings: fresh grain, new wine, olive oil, lambs and calves. Their lives will be like well-watered gardens, and they will never suffer again.

Hosea 6:3

Let us get to know Jehovah! Let us press on (run after) (follow) to get to know him. As surely as the sun rises he will appear. He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods, but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? That one (Greek: hos he ho which, that one) is in you. You received it from God. You are not your own.

1 Corinthians 7:34

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. She who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

2 Corinthians 1:22

He also sealed us, and gave us the guarantee of the Spirit in our hearts.

Ephesians 1:13

You have heard the word of the truth in Christ. It is the good news about your salvation. You also believed and were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 4:30

Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in which (Greek: en hos) (in which) (Greek: hos, he ho) (whereby) (which) you were sealed to the day of release by ransom.

Revelation 7:3

He said: Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

Revelation 21:27

Nothing impure will ever enter it. The shameful and deceitful will not enter. Only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life will enter.

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