Song of Songs 4:12

In 11 translations

BSB

My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.

KJV

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

WEB

My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

ASV

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

LSV

A garden shut up [is] my sister-spouse, || A spring shut up—a fountain sealed.

YLT

A garden shut up [is] my sister-spouse, A spring shut up — a fountain sealed.

DBY

A garden enclosed is my sister, [my] spouse; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

DRC

My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.

GNV

My sister my spouse is as a garden inclosed, as a spring shut vp, and a fountaine sealed vp.

JPS

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

LXXE

My sister, my spouse is a garden enclosed; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed.

Word by word Hebrew · tap a word

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

גַּ֥ן ׀ נָע֖וּל אֲחֹתִ֣י כַלָּ֑ה גַּ֥ל נָע֖וּל מַעְיָ֥ן חָתֽוּם׃

LXX-Br

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

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 5:15–18Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with…
• Revelation 21:27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
• 1 Corinthians 6:13“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
• Isaiah 61:10–11I 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…
• 1 Corinthians 6:19–20Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
• Revelation 7:3“Do not harm the land or sea or trees until we have sealed the foreheads of the servants of our God.”
• 1 Corinthians 7:34and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the work of the Lord, how she can be holy in both body and spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, how…
• Ephesians 4:30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
• Song of Songs 6:11I went down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding or the pomegranates were in bloom.
• Jeremiah 31:12They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD— the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered…
• 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 29:3When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
• Hosea 6:3So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
• Isaiah 58:11The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
• Ephesians 1:13And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
• 2 Corinthians 1:22placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.

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