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camphire, with spikenard,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/songs/4.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Your plants <i>are</i> an orchard of pomegranates With pleasant fruits, Fragrant henna with spikenard,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/songs/4.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates With delicious fruits, henna with nard plants,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/songs/4.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates With choice fruits, henna with nard plants,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/songs/4.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates With choice fruits, henna with nard plants,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/songs/4.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates With choice fruits, henna with nard plants,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/songs/4.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, [A paradise] with precious fruits, henna with fragrant plants,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/songs/4.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Your branches are a paradise of pomegranates with choicest fruits; henna with nard,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/songs/4.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Your branches are a paradise of pomegranates with choicest fruits, henna with nard— <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/songs/4.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/songs/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Your arms are vines, covered with delicious fruits and all sorts of spices--henna, nard, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/songs/4.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits; henna with spikenard plants,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/songs/4.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />You are paradise that produces pomegranates and the best fruits, henna flowers and nard,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/songs/4.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />there the plants flourish. They grow like an orchard of pomegranate trees and bear the finest fruits. There is no lack of henna and nard, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/songs/4.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with choice fruit, henna with nard,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/songs/4.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/songs/4.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Your shoots are a royal garden full of pomegranates with choice fruits: henna with nard, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/songs/4.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/songs/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphor, with spikenard,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/songs/4.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants, <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/songs/4.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Your shoots a paradise of pomegranates, "" With precious fruits,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/songs/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Thy shoots a paradise of pomegranates, With precious fruits,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/songs/4.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Thy sendings forth a park of pomegranates, with most precious fruits, cypresses with spikenards,<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/songs/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/songs/4.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br /><font color=#CC0000>You send forth a paradise of pomegranates along with the fruits of the orchard: Cypress grapes, with aromatic oil;</font><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/songs/4.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Your branches are a grove of pomegranates, with fruits of choicest yield: Henna with spikenard, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/songs/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Your channel is an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard,<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/songs/4.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; henna-flower with spikenard.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/songs/4.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Your nudity is a paradise of pomegranates with the fruit of produce; henna flower with spikenard<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/songs/4.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Thy shoots are a park of pomegranates, With precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/songs/4.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Thy shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; camphor, with spikenard:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/songs/4-13.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9D_QEk8ZdxU?start=573" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/songs/4.htm">Solomon Admires His Bride</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">12</span>My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed. <span class="reftext">13</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7973.htm" title="7973: šə·lā·ḥa·yiḵ (N-mpc:: 2fs) -- A missile, weapon, sprout. From shalach; a missile of attack, i.e. Spear; also a shoot of growth; i.e. Branch.">Your branches</a> <a href="/hebrew/6508.htm" title="6508: par·dês (N-msc) -- A preserve, park. Of foreign origin; a park.">are an orchard</a> <a href="/hebrew/7416.htm" title="7416: rim·mō·w·nîm (N-mp) -- A pomegranate. Or rimmon; from ramam; a pomegranate, the tree or the fruit.">of pomegranates</a> <a href="/hebrew/5973.htm" title="5973: ‘im (Prep) -- From amam; adverb or preposition, with, in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix.">with</a> <a href="/hebrew/4022.htm" title="4022: mə·ḡā·ḏîm (N-mp) -- From an unused root probably meaning to be eminent; properly, a distinguished thing; hence something valuable, as a product or fruit.">the choicest</a> <a href="/hebrew/6529.htm" title="6529: pə·rî (N-msc) -- Fruit. From parah; fruit.">of fruits,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3724.htm" title="3724: kə·p̄ā·rîm (N-mp) -- From kaphar; properly, a cover, i.e. a village; bitumen, and the henna plant; figuratively, a redemption-price.">with henna</a> <a href="/hebrew/5973.htm" title="5973: ‘im- (Prep) -- From amam; adverb or preposition, with, in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix.">and</a> <a href="/hebrew/5373.htm" title="5373: nə·rā·ḏîm (N-mp) -- Nard. Of foreign origin; nard, an aromatic.">nard,</a> </span><span class="reftext">14</span>with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/2-9.htm">Genesis 2:9</a></span><br />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 of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/5-1.htm">Isaiah 5:1-2</a></span><br />I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. / He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/15-1.htm">John 15:1-5</a></span><br />“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard. / He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful. / You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/1-3.htm">Psalm 1:3</a></span><br />He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/47-12.htm">Ezekiel 47:12</a></span><br />Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/5-22.htm">Galatians 5:22-23</a></span><br />But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, / gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/17-7.htm">Jeremiah 17:7-8</a></span><br />But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him. / He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/7-17.htm">Matthew 7:17-20</a></span><br />Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. / A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. / Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/22-1.htm">Revelation 22:1-2</a></span><br />Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb / down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/11-30.htm">Proverbs 11:30</a></span><br />The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/61-11.htm">Isaiah 61:11</a></span><br />For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/15-8.htm">John 15:8</a></span><br />This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/14-5.htm">Hosea 14:5-7</a></span><br />I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon. / His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon. / They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/13-23.htm">Matthew 13:23</a></span><br />But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/1-10.htm">Colossians 1:10</a></span><br />so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,</p><p class="hdg">are</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/songs/6-11.htm">Song of Solomon 6:11</a></b></br> I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, <i>and</i> to see whether the vine flourished, <i>and</i> the pomegranates budded.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/songs/7-12.htm">Song of Solomon 7:12</a></b></br> Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, <i>whether</i> the tender grape appear, <i>and</i> the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/songs/8-2.htm">Song of Solomon 8:2</a></b></br> I would lead thee, <i>and</i> bring thee into my mother's house, <i>who</i> would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.</p><p class="hdg">pleasant</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/songs/6-2.htm">Song of Solomon 6:2</a></b></br> My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.</p><p class="hdg">camphire</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/songs/4-14.htm">Song of Solomon 4:14</a></b></br> Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/songs/1-14.htm">Song of Solomon 1:14</a></b></br> My beloved <i>is</i> unto me <i>as</i> a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.</p><p class="hdg">spikenard</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/songs/1-12.htm">Song of Solomon 1:12</a></b></br> While the king <i>sitteth</i> at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/mark/14-3.htm">Mark 14:3</a></b></br> And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured <i>it</i> on his head.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/john/12-3.htm">John 12:3</a></b></br> Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ecclesiastes/11-10.htm">Best</a> <a href="/songs/1-14.htm">Camphire</a> <a href="/songs/1-14.htm">Camphor</a> <a href="/proverbs/26-22.htm">Choice</a> <a href="/proverbs/8-19.htm">Choicest</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-18.htm">Fruits</a> <a href="/songs/4-12.htm">Garden</a> <a href="/songs/1-14.htm">Henna</a> <a href="/songs/1-12.htm">Nard</a> <a href="/exodus/23-11.htm">Orchard</a> <a href="/revelation/2-7.htm">Paradise</a> <a href="/nehemiah/2-8.htm">Park</a> <a href="/proverbs/31-16.htm">Plants</a> <a href="/songs/1-16.htm">Pleasant</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/4-13.htm">Pomegranates</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-1.htm">Precious</a> <a href="/proverbs/18-20.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/proverbs/26-18.htm">Shoots</a> <a href="/songs/1-12.htm">Spikenard</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/songs/4-14.htm">Best</a> <a href="/songs/1-14.htm">Camphire</a> <a href="/songs/1-14.htm">Camphor</a> <a href="/songs/4-16.htm">Choice</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-2.htm">Choicest</a> <a href="/songs/4-16.htm">Fruits</a> <a href="/songs/4-15.htm">Garden</a> <a href="/songs/1-14.htm">Henna</a> <a href="/songs/4-14.htm">Nard</a> <a href="/songs/6-11.htm">Orchard</a> <a href="/luke/23-43.htm">Paradise</a> <a href="/nehemiah/2-8.htm">Park</a> <a href="/songs/5-13.htm">Plants</a> <a href="/songs/4-16.htm">Pleasant</a> <a href="/songs/6-11.htm">Pomegranates</a> <a href="/songs/4-16.htm">Precious</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-4.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-8.htm">Shoots</a> <a href="/songs/4-14.htm">Spikenard</a><div class="vheading2">Song of Solomon 4</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/songs/4-1.htm">Christ sets forth the graces of the church</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/songs/4-8.htm">He shows forth his love to her</a></span><br><span class="reftext">16. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/songs/4-16.htm">The church prays to be made fit for his presence</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In ancient Israel, pomegranates were a symbol of abundance and blessing, often associated with the Promised Land (<a href="/deuteronomy/8-8.htm">Deuteronomy 8:8</a>). The pomegranate's many seeds can symbolize fruitfulness and the potential for life. In the context of the Song of Solomon, this imagery may also reflect the intimate and life-giving nature of love within marriage. The branches suggest a spreading, nurturing quality, indicating growth and vitality.<p><b>with the choicest of fruits</b><br>The mention of "choicest of fruits" emphasizes the quality and excellence of what the beloved offers. In biblical times, fruit was a common metaphor for the results of one's life and actions (<a href="/matthew/7-16.htm">Matthew 7:16-20</a>). This phrase suggests that the beloved's character and virtues are of the highest quality, reflecting the best of what God has created. It also points to the idea of spiritual fruitfulness, as seen in <a href="/galatians/5-22.htm">Galatians 5:22-23</a>, where the fruits of the Spirit are listed.<p><b>with henna and nard</b><br>Henna and nard were both valuable and aromatic plants in the ancient Near East. Henna, used for its dye and fragrance, was often associated with beauty and adornment. Nard, or spikenard, was a costly perfume, mentioned in the New Testament as being used by Mary to anoint Jesus (<a href="/john/12-3.htm">John 12:3</a>). The inclusion of these elements in the description of the beloved suggests a richness and depth to her character and presence. It also hints at the sacrificial and precious nature of true love, drawing a parallel to the love of Christ, who was anointed before His burial.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_beloved.htm">The Beloved</a></b><br>The speaker in this verse is Solomon, who is addressing his bride, often referred to as the Shulammite. The imagery used is a metaphor for her beauty and virtues.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/o/orchard_of_pomegranates.htm">Orchard of Pomegranates</a></b><br>This imagery represents abundance, fertility, and beauty. Pomegranates were a symbol of love and desire in ancient cultures.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/h/henna_and_nard.htm">Henna and Nard</a></b><br>These are aromatic plants. Henna was used for its fragrance and as a dye, while nard (spikenard) was a costly perfume, symbolizing value and preciousness.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_beauty_and_virtue.htm">Symbolism of Beauty and Virtue</a></b><br>The use of rich, natural imagery in this verse highlights the beauty and virtue of the beloved. In our lives, we should strive to cultivate inner beauty and virtues that reflect God's love and grace.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_fruitfulness.htm">Spiritual Fruitfulness</a></b><br>Just as the orchard is full of choice fruits, believers are called to bear spiritual fruit. This involves living a life that reflects the character of Christ and impacts others positively.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/v/value_and_preciousness.htm">Value and Preciousness</a></b><br>The mention of henna and nard underscores the value and preciousness of the beloved. We are reminded of our worth in God's eyes and the importance of valuing others as His creation.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/i/intimacy_with_god.htm">Intimacy with God</a></b><br>The intimate language of the Song of Solomon can be seen as a metaphor for the relationship between Christ and the Church. We are invited to cultivate a deep, personal relationship with God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_song_of_solomon_4.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Song of Solomon 4</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/can_exodus_39's_robes_be_historically_verified.htm">Exodus 39:22–26: Are there historical or archaeological records to confirm that such finely woven robes, bells, and pomegranates could have been produced by this group at that time? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_song_4_7's_perfection_fit_reality.htm">How can the description of the bride's flawless perfection in Song of Solomon 4:7 align with human reality, given our understanding of human imperfection?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_song_4_fit_solomon's_many_wives.htm">If historically attributed to King Solomon, how does Song of Solomon 4 mesh with the accounts of his many wives and concubines in other biblical texts (e.g., 1 Kings 11:3)?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_focus_on_sensuality_in_song_4_5-7.htm">Why does this chapter focus on sensual imagery (Song of Solomon 4:5-7) when other biblical texts seem to emphasize modesty or spiritual themes?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/songs/4.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(13) <span class= "bld">Thy plants.</span>--Some have thought the offspring of the marriage intended here; but the poet is plainly, by a new adaptation of the language of flowers, describing the charms of the person of his beloved.<p><span class= "bld">Orchard.</span>--Heb. <span class= "ital">pardes</span>; LXX. <span class= "greekheb">??????????</span>; found only elsewhere in <a href="/nehemiah/2-8.htm" title="And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God on me.">Nehemiah 2:8</a> (where see Note), <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-5.htm" title="I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:">Ecclesiastes 2:5</a>. <span class= "ital">The pomegranate </span>was perhaps an emblem of love, having been held sacred to the Syrian Venus. (See Tristram, <span class= "ital">Nat. Hist. of Bible, </span>p. 389.)<p><span class= "bld">Camphire.</span>--See Note, <a href="/songs/1-14.htm" title="My beloved is to me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.">Song of Solomon 1:14</a>.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/songs/4.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 13, 14.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits; henna with spikenard plants, spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.</span> <span class="accented">Thy shoots</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> that which comes forth from thee, thy plants, or, as Bottcher puts it, "all the phenomena and life utterances of her personality." All the plants had their meaning in flower language. They are mostly exotics. But it is difficult now to suggest meanings, though they may have been familiar to Jewish readers at the time. The <span class="accented">pardes</span>, "park, or enclosure," was adorned especially with foreign and fragrant plants of great beauty. It is an Old Persian word, perhaps, as Delitzsch suggests, from <span class="accented">pairi</span> (<span class="greek">περὶ</span>) and <span class="accented">dez</span> (Pers. <span class="accented">diz</span>), "a heap." <span class="accented">Precious fruit</span>; literally, <span class="accented">fructus laudam</span>, "fruits of renown" or excellence (cf. Syriac <span class="accented">magdo</span>, "dried fruit"). The <span class="accented">carcom</span>, or saffron, a kind of crocus (Ind. <span class="accented">safran</span>), yields the saffron colour from its dried flower eyes, used both as a cosmetic and as a medicine (cf. Sansc. <span class="accented">kuakuma</span>). The <span class="accented">calamus</span>, simply a reed, the sweet reed, a corn indigenous to the East. <span class="accented">Cinnamon</span> (<span class="accented">Quinnamon</span>)<span class="accented">, Laurus cinnamomum</span>, is indigenous on the east coast of Africa and Ceylon, found later in the Antibes. The inner bark peeled off and roiled together forms the cinnamon bark (see Pliny, bk. 12). There are seven spices mentioned. We need not trouble ourselves to identify them all, as they are mostly Indian, and such as Solomon would fetch from the far East in his celebrated ships. The description is highly poetical, and simply means that all sweetness and attractiveness combine in the fair one. But symbolically we may see an allusion to the spread of the Church over the world, and all the glory and honour of the nations" being introduced into it. So the graces of the individual soul expand themselves under the influence of Christian truth and fellowship. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/songs/4-13.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Your branches</span><br /><span class="heb">שְׁלָחַ֙יִךְ֙</span> <span class="translit">(šə·lā·ḥa·yiḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7973.htm">Strong's 7973: </a> </span><span class="str2">A missile of attack, spear, a shoot of growth, branch</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[are] an orchard</span><br /><span class="heb">פַּרְדֵּ֣ס</span> <span class="translit">(par·dês)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6508.htm">Strong's 6508: </a> </span><span class="str2">A preserve, park</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of pomegranates</span><br /><span class="heb">רִמּוֹנִ֔ים</span> <span class="translit">(rim·mō·w·nîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7416.htm">Strong's 7416: </a> </span><span class="str2">A pomegranate, the tree, the fruit</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with</span><br /><span class="heb">עִ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(‘im)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5973.htm">Strong's 5973: </a> </span><span class="str2">With, equally with</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the choicest</span><br /><span class="heb">מְגָדִ֑ים</span> <span class="translit">(mə·ḡā·ḏîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4022.htm">Strong's 4022: </a> </span><span class="str2">A distinguished thing, something valuable, as a, product, fruit</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of fruits,</span><br /><span class="heb">פְּרִ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(pə·rî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6529.htm">Strong's 6529: </a> </span><span class="str2">Fruit</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with henna</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּפָרִ֖ים</span> <span class="translit">(kə·p̄ā·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3724.htm">Strong's 3724: </a> </span><span class="str2">A cover, a village, bitumen, the henna plant, a redemption-price</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[and]</span><br /><span class="heb">עִם־</span> <span class="translit">(‘im-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5973.htm">Strong's 5973: </a> </span><span class="str2">With, equally with</span><br /><br /><span class="word">nard,</span><br /><span class="heb">נְרָדִֽים׃</span> <span class="translit">(nə·rā·ḏîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5373.htm">Strong's 5373: </a> </span><span class="str2">Nard, an aromatic</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/songs/4-13.htm">Song of Solomon 4:13 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/songs/4-13.htm">Song of Solomon 4:13 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/songs/4-13.htm">Song of Solomon 4:13 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/songs/4-13.htm">Song of Solomon 4:13 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/songs/4-13.htm">Song of Solomon 4:13 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/songs/4-13.htm">Song of Solomon 4:13 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/songs/4-13.htm">Song of Solomon 4:13 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/songs/4-13.htm">Song of Solomon 4:13 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/songs/4-13.htm">Song of Solomon 4:13 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/songs/4-13.htm">Song of Solomon 4:13 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/songs/4-13.htm">OT Poetry: Song of Solomon 4:13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates (Song Songs SS So Can)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/songs/4-12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Song of Solomon 4:12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 4:12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/songs/4-14.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Song of Solomon 4:14"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 4:14" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>