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Song of Solomon 4:12

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

KJV

Hortus conclusus soror mea, sponsa, hortus conclusus, fons signatus.

Vulgate

κῆπος κεκλεισμένος ἀδελφή μου νύμφη, κῆπος κεκλεισμένος, πηγὴ ἐσφραγισμένη·

LXX

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

ASV

גַּ֥ן נָע֖וּל אֲחֹתִ֣/י כַלָּ֑ה גַּ֥ל נָע֖וּל מַעְיָ֥ן חָתֽוּם

Hebrew

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In this verse

Symbols Garden

In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

גַן
gn
noun · 42×
ו
v
noun · 34×
וֹ
v
noun · 34×
י
y
noun · 119×
יַחְתֹּֽם
ychtm
verb · 27×
מַעְיָ֣ן
m'yn
noun · 22×
נָע֖וּל
n'vl
verb · 8×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 6:13 — Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
  • 1Cor 6:19 — What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
  • 1Cor 7:34 — There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the thi
  • 1Cor 9:5 — Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
  • Isa 61:10 — I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh
  • Prov 5:15 — Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
  • Prov 5:18 — Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
  • Rev 7:3 — Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
  • Rev 21:27 — And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
  • Song 3:6 — Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
  • Song 4:9 — Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.