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The Bridegroom

Song of Songs 1:10

In 11 translations

BSB
Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
KJV
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
WEB
Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.
ASV
Thy cheeks are comely with plaits of hair, Thy neck with strings of jewels.
LSV
Your cheeks have been lovely with garlands, your neck with chains.
YLT
Comely have been thy cheeks with garlands, Thy neck with chains.
DBY
Thy cheeks are comely with bead-rows, Thy neck with ornamental chains.
DRC1:9
Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove’s, thy neck as jewels.
GNV1:9
Thy cheekes are comely with rowes of stones, and thy necke with chaines.
JPS
Thy cheeks are comely with circlets, thy neck with beads.
LXXE
How are thy cheeks beautiful as those of a dove, thy neck as chains!

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Original-language editions

WLC
נָאו֤וּ לְחָיַ֨יִךְ֙ בַּתֹּרִ֔ים צַוָּארֵ֖ךְ בַּחֲרוּזִֽים׃
LXX-Br
Τί ὡραιώθησαν σιαγόνες σου ὡς τρυγόνος, τράχηλός σου ὡς ὁρμίσκοι;

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Ezekiel 16:11–13I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck. I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head. So you were adorned with gold and…
  • 1 Peter 3:4but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.
  • Song of Songs 5:13His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
  • Genesis 24:47Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
  • Genesis 24:22And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
  • Isaiah 3:18–21In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents; their pendants, bracelets, and veils; their headdresses, ankle chains, and sashes; their perfume bottles and charms; their…
  • Song of Songs 4:9You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck.
  • Genesis 41:42Then Pharaoh removed the signet ring from his finger, put it on Joseph’s finger, clothed him in garments of fine linen, and placed a gold chain around his neck.
  • Proverbs 1:9For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
  • Numbers 31:50So we have brought to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man acquired—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”
  • 2 Peter 1:3–4His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises,…
  • Isaiah 61:10I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 1:9 in some Bibles
  • 1:10 in most Bibles

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