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Song of Solomon 4:12
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Song of Solomon 4:12
12A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
12†A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse: a spring shut vp, a fountaine sealed.
- Hebr. barred.
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DEFINED WORDS
Song of Solomon 4:12
An enclosed or cultivated place for plants, herbs, or fruit.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Surrounded; encompassed; confined on all sides; covered and sealed; fenced.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
One engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A source or flow of water.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To close, fasten, or exclude; to become closed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To seal: to close, secure, mark, or authenticate with a seal.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 12
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Open the full verse study15¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
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Open the full verse study27And 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.
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Open the full verse study13Meats 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.
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Open the full verse study10I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
11For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
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Open the full verse study19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
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Open the full verse study34There 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 things of the world, how she may please her husband.
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Open the full verse study3Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
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Open the full verse study22Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
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Open the full verse study13In 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,
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Open the full verse study30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
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Open the full verse study3And 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.
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Open the full verse study3Then 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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Open the full verse study11And 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.
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Open the full verse study12Therefore 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 their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
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Open the full verse study11I 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.
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Open the full verse study2My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
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