Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are firs. New Living Translation fragrant cedar branches are the beams of our house, and pleasant smelling firs are the rafters. English Standard Version the beams of our house are cedar; our rafters are pine. Berean Standard Bible The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs. King James Bible The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir. New King James Version The beams of our houses are cedar, And our rafters of fir. New American Standard Bible “The beams of our house are cedars, Our rafters, junipers. NASB 1995 “The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters, cypresses. NASB 1977 “The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters, cypresses. Legacy Standard Bible The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters, cypresses. Amplified Bible “The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters and panels are cypresses. Christian Standard Bible the beams of our house are cedars, and our rafters are cypresses. Holman Christian Standard Bible the beams of our house are cedars, and our rafters are cypresses. American Standard Version The beams of our house are cedars, And our rafters are firs. Aramaic Bible in Plain English The beams of our house are cedars, the joists of cypress Brenton Septuagint Translation The beams of our house are cedars, our ceilings are of cypress. Contemporary English Version in the shade of cedar and cypress trees. Douay-Rheims Bible The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees. English Revised Version The beams of our house are cedars, and our rafters are firs. GOD'S WORD® Translation The cedars will be the walls of our house. The cypress trees will be our rafters. Good News Translation the cedars will be the beams of our house, and the cypress trees the ceiling. International Standard Version The beams of our house are cedar, our rafters are pine. JPS Tanakh 1917 The beams of our houses are cedars, And our panels are cypresses. Literal Standard Version The beams of our houses [are] cedars, | Our rafters [are] firs, I [am] a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys! Majority Standard Bible The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs. New American Bible the beams of our house are cedars, our rafters, cypresses. NET Bible the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber; the pines are the rafters of our bedroom. New Revised Standard Version the beams of our house are cedar, our rafters are pine. New Heart English Bible The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. Webster's Bible Translation The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir. World English Bible The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. Young's Literal Translation The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters are firs, I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys! Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Bride Confesses Her Love…16How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed. 17The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs. Cross References 1 Kings 6:9 So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar. 1 Kings 6:10 He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar. 2 Chronicles 3:5 He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains. Jeremiah 22:14 who says, 'I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.' So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion. Treasury of Scripture The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir. beams Song of Solomon 8:9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar. 2 Chronicles 2:8,9 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, … Psalm 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. rafters Song of Solomon 7:5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries. Ezekiel 41:16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered; Ezekiel 42:3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories. Jump to Previous Beams Beloved Boards Cedar Cedars Cedar-Trees Cypresses Fir Firs Fir-Trees House Houses Lily Panels Pillars Pine Rafters Rose Sharon ValleysJump to Next Beams Beloved Boards Cedar Cedars Cedar-Trees Cypresses Fir Firs Fir-Trees House Houses Lily Panels Pillars Pine Rafters Rose Sharon ValleysSong of Solomon 1 1. the church's love unto Christ5. She confesses her deformity 7. and prays to be directed, to his flock 8. Christ directs her to the shepherd's tents 9. and showing his love to her 11. gives her gracious promises 12. the church and Christ congratulate one another (17) Rafters.--Marg., galleries (comp. Song of Solomon 7:5); LXX., ?????????; Vulg., laquearia; Heb., rahit, from rahat = run, flow: hence (1) a gutter, from the water running down (Gen. 3:38); (2) a curl, from its flowing down the neck (Song of Solomon 7:5--Hebrews 6); (3) here rafters, or roof beams, from their spreading overhead. "Our couch was the green grass, the arches of our bower the cedar branches, and its rafters the firs." Others read rachitim, 1Kings 4:33. Fir.--Heb., beroth (Aramaic form of berosh), a tree often mentioned in connection with cedar as an emblem of majesty, &c. (Ezekiel 31:8; Isaiah 37:24; Isaiah 60:13). "The plain here has evidently been buried deep under sand long ages ago, precisely as at Beir-t, and here are the usual pine forests growing upon it (Beir-t is by some derived from ber-th). These are the finest specimens we have seen in Palestine, though every sandy ridge of Lebanon and Hermon is clothed with them. In my opinion it is the Heb. berosh, concerning which there is so much confusion in the various translations of the Bible . . . the generic name for the pine, of which there are several varieties in Lebanon. Cypress is rarely found there, but pine everywhere, and it is the tree used for beams and rafters (Thomson, The Land and Book, p. 511). The Pinus maritima and the Aleppo pine are the most common, the latter being often mistaken for the Scotch fir. (See Tristram, Nat. Hist. of Bible, p. 353, &c.) . . . Hebrew The beamsקֹר֤וֹת (qō·rō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural construct Strong's 6982: A rafter, a roof of our house בָּתֵּ֙ינוּ֙ (bāt·tê·nū) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural Strong's 1004: A house are cedars; אֲרָזִ֔ים (’ă·rā·zîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 730: A cedar tree our rafters רַהִיטֵ֖נוּ (ra·hî·ṭê·nū) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural Strong's 7351: Perhaps rafters, boards [are] fragrant firs. בְּרוֹתִֽים׃ (bə·rō·w·ṯîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1266: Cypress or fir Links Song of Solomon 1:17 NIVSong of Solomon 1:17 NLT Song of Solomon 1:17 ESV Song of Solomon 1:17 NASB Song of Solomon 1:17 KJV Song of Solomon 1:17 BibleApps.com Song of Solomon 1:17 Biblia Paralela Song of Solomon 1:17 Chinese Bible Song of Solomon 1:17 French Bible Song of Solomon 1:17 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Song of Solomon 1:17 The beams of our house are cedars (Song Songs SS So Can) |
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