Ecclesiastes 2:5

In 11 translations

BSB

I made gardens and parks for myself, where I planted all kinds of fruit trees.

KJV

I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:

WEB

I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

ASV

I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

LSV

I made for myself gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.

YLT

I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.

DBY

I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit;

DRC

I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,

GNV

I haue made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them trees of all fruite.

JPS

I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

LXXE

I made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them every kind of fruit-tree.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

עָשִׂ֣יתִי לִ֔י גַּנּ֖וֹת וּפַרְדֵּסִ֑ים וְנָטַ֥עְתִּי בָהֶ֖ם עֵ֥ץ כָּל־פֶּֽרִי׃

LXX-Br

ἐποίησά μοι κήπους καὶ παραδείσους, καὶ ἐφύτευσα ἐν αὐτοῖς ξύλον πᾶν καρποῦ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Song of Songs 6:2My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies.
• Genesis 2:8–9And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed. Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle…
• Luke 17:27–29People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and…
• Song of Songs 4:12–5:1My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed. Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard, with nard and saffron, with calamus…
• Jeremiah 39:4When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.

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