Song of Songs 8:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כַּרְמִ֥י שֶׁלִּ֖י לְפָנָ֑י הָאֶ֤לֶף לְךָ֙ שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה וּמָאתַ֖יִם לְנֹטְרִ֥ים אֶת־פִּרְיֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

karmî šellî before-me the-ʾelep to-you šĕlōmōh and-māʾtayim to-nōṭĕrîm ʾet-piryô

Grammar Details

*karmî*: masculine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - my vineyard
*šellî*: relative particle + preposition + 1st person singular suffix - which is mine
*lĕpānāy*: preposition + masculine plural noun + 1st person singular suffix - before me
*ʾelep*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the thousand
*lĕḵā*: preposition + 2nd masculine singular suffix - to you
*šĕlōmōh*: proper noun - Solomon
*māʾtayim*: dual numeral - two hundred
*nōṭĕrîm*: qal participle masculine plural - keepers
*piryô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - its fruit

Word Meanings

*karmî šellî lĕpānāy*: my own vineyard is before me/my vineyard which belongs to me is mine
*māʾtayim lĕnōṭĕrîm ʾet-piryô*: two hundred for those who keep its fruit/two hundred for the keepers of its fruit

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Referenced Verses

Song 1:6 : 6 Look not upon me, because I am swarthy, Because the sun hath scorched me. My mother's sons were incensed against me; They made me keeper of the vineyards; But mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed {G3767} unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.
Rom 14:7-9 : 7 For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself. 8 For whether {G5037} we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether {G5037} we live therefore, or {G5037} die, we are the Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ {G2532} died and {G450} {G2532} lived [again], that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
1 Cor 6:20 : 20 for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.
2 Cor 5:15 : 15 and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.
1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus {G5547} at his coming?
1 Tim 4:15-16 : 15 Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all. 16 Take heed to thyself, and to thy teaching. Continue in these things; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee.
1 Tim 5:17-18 : 17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching. 18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire.
Ps 72:17-19 : 17 His name shall endure for ever; His name shall be continued as long as the sun: And men shall be blessed in him; All nations shall call him happy. 18 Blessed be Jehovah God, the God of Israel, Who only doeth wondrous things: 19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever; And let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen, and Amen.
Prov 4:23 : 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Song 8:11
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1Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
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3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
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2 Chr 9:12
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1 Kgs 10:26
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1 Chr 28:5
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