The Bridegroom
Song of Songs 1:17
In 11 translations
- BSB
- The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
- KJV
- The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.rafters: or, galleries
- WEB
- The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs.
- ASV
- The beams of our house are cedars, And our rafters are firs.
- LSV
- The beams of our houses [are] cedars, || Our rafters [are] firs, I [am] a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys!
- YLT
- The beams of our houses [are] cedars, Our rafters [are] firs, I [am] a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys!
- DBY
- The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters are cypresses.
- DRC1:16
- The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees.
- GNV1:16
- The beames of our house are cedars, our rafters are of firre.
- JPS
- The beams of our houses are cedars, and our panels are cypresses.
- LXXE
- The beams of our house are cedars, our ceilings are of cypress.
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- Written (Ketiv): רַחִיטֵנוּ (“rafters our”). Read aloud (Qere): רַהִיטֵ֖נוּ (“rafters our”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads רַחִיטֵ֖נוּ; read aloud (Qere) reads רַהִיטֵ֖נוּ (“rafters our”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- קֹר֤וֹת בָּתֵּ֨ינוּ֙ אֲרָזִ֔ים רחיטנו בְּרוֹתִֽים׃Read aloud as (qere): רַהִיטֵ֖נוּ
- LXX-Br
- Δοκοὶ οἴκων ἡμῶν κέδροι, φατνώματα ἡμῶν κυπάρισσοι.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Hebrews 11:10For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
- Psalms 92:12The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
- Ezekiel 41:16as well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground to the windows, and…
- 2 Chronicles 2:8–9Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber there. And indeed, my servants will work with yours to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the…
- 1 Kings 6:9So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
- Song of Songs 7:5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.
- Song of Songs 8:9If she is a wall, we will build a tower of silver to protect her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
- Ezekiel 42:3Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.
- 1 Peter 2:4–5As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight, you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices…
- 1 Timothy 3:15–16in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. By common confession, the mystery of…
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 1:16 in some Bibles
- 1:17 in most Bibles