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The Bridegroom

Song of Songs 6:8

In 11 translations

BSB
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,
KJV
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
WEB
There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
ASV
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number.
LSV
Sixty are queens, and eighty concubines, || And virgins without number.
YLT
Sixty are queens, and eighty concubines, And virgins without number.
DBY
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number:
DRC6:7
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.
GNV6:7
There are threescore Queenes and fourescore concubines and of the damsels without nober.
JPS
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and maidens without number.
LXXE
There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.

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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
שִׁשִּׁ֥ים הֵ֨מָּה֙ מְּלָכ֔וֹת וּשְׁמֹנִ֖ים פִּֽילַגְשִׁ֑ים וַעֲלָמ֖וֹת אֵ֥ין מִסְפָּֽר׃
LXX-Br
Ἑξήκοντά εἰσι βασίλισσαι καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα παλλακαὶ, καὶ νεάνιδες ὧν οὐκ ἔστιν ἀριθμός.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 45:14In colorful garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions are brought before you.
  • 1 Kings 11:3He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
  • 1 Kings 11:1King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
  • Psalms 45:9The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
  • 2 Chronicles 11:21Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
  • Revelation 7:9After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in…

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 6:7 in some Bibles
  • 6:8 in most Bibles

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