Song of Solomon 4:12
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed."
Word-by-Word Analysis
מוּסַבָּה
mûwçabbâh
a reversal, i.e. the backside (of a gem), fold (of a double-leaved door), transmutation (of a name)
אָחוֹת
ʼâchôwth
a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively)
כַּלָּה
kallâh
a bride (as if perfect); hence, a son's wife
פָּרַח
pârach
to break forth as a bud, i.e. bloom; generally, to spread; specifically, to fly (as extending the wings); figuratively, to flourish
סָגַר
çâgar
to shut up; figuratively, to surrender
מָקוֹר
mâqôwr
properly, something dug, i.e. a (general) source (of water, even when naturally flowing; also of tears, blood (by euphemism, of the female pudenda); f...
Key Terms in This Verse
מוּסַבָּה mûwçabbâh
a reversal, i.e. the backside (of a gem), fold (of a double-leaved door), transmutation (of a name)
Study H4142 →פָּרַח pârach
to break forth as a bud, i.e. bloom; generally, to spread; specifically, to fly (as extending the wings); figuratively, to flourish
Study H6524 →מָקוֹר mâqôwr
properly, something dug, i.e. a (general) source (of water, even when naturally flowing; also of tears, blood (by euphemism, of the female pudenda); figuratively, of happiness, wisdom, progeny)
Study H4726 →אָחוֹת ʼâchôwth
a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively)
Study H269 →Cross References
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the thi...
Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and...
And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
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