Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?

New American Standard Bible

Where has your beloved gone,
O most beautiful among women?
Where has your beloved turned,
That we may seek him with you?”

King James Version

Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

Holman Bible

Y Where has your love gone,
most beautiful of women?
Which way has he turned?
We will seek him with you.

International Standard Version

Where did your beloved go, most beautiful of women? Where did your beloved turn, so we may look for him with you?

A Conservative Version

Where has thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? Where has thy beloved turned, that we may seek him with thee?

American Standard Version

Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? Whither hath thy beloved turned him, That we may seek him with thee?

Amplified

(The Chorus)“Where has your beloved gone,
O most beautiful among women?
Where is your beloved hiding himself,
That we may seek him with you?”

Darby Translation

Whither is thy beloved gone, Thou fairest among women? Whither is thy beloved turned aside? And we will seek him with thee.

Julia Smith Translation

Where went thy beloved, O beautiful one among women? where turned away thy beloved, and we will seek him with thee.

King James 2000

Where has your beloved gone, O you fairest among women? where has your beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned that we may seek him with you?

Modern King James verseion

Where has your Beloved gone, most beautiful among women? Where has your Beloved turned? For we seek Him along with you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Whither is thy love gone then, O thou fairest among women; whither is thy love departed, that we may seek him with thee?

NET Bible

The Maidens to the Beloved: Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned? Tell us, that we may seek him with you.

New Heart English Bible

Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

The Emphasized Bible

DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEMWhither hath thy beloved, gone, thou most beautiful among women? whither hath thy beloved turned him aside? That we may seek him with thee.

Webster

Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

World English Bible

Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? Beloved

Youngs Literal Translation

Whither hath thy beloved gone, O fair among women? Whither hath thy beloved turned, And we seek him with thee?

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּד דּוד 
Dowd 
Usage: 61

הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

O thou fairest
יפה 
Yapheh 
Usage: 41

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

דּד דּוד 
Dowd 
Usage: 61

פּנה 
Panah 
Usage: 134

Verse Info

Context Readings

Maiden's Praise Of Her Beloved

1 Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you? 2 My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.



Cross References

Song of Songs 1:8

If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.

Song of Songs 5:9

What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?

Ruth 1:16-17

But Ruth said, Give up requesting me to go away from you, or to go back without you: for where you go I will go; and where you take your rest I will take my rest; your people will be my people, and your God my God.

Ruth 2:12

The Lord give you a reward for what you have done, and may a full reward be given to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take cover.

Song of Songs 1:4

Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

Song of Songs 2:2

As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.

Song of Songs 5:6

I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

Song of Songs 6:4

You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.

Song of Songs 6:9-10

My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.

Isaiah 2:5

O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.

Jeremiah 14:8

O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?

Zechariah 8:21-23

And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you.

Acts 5:11-14

Then great fear came on all the church and on all who had knowledge of these things.

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