Verse 12

A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Du er en innelukket hage, min søster, min brud, en kilde med klart vann, en forseglet brønn.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  En lukket hage er min søster, min brud; en stengt kilde, en forseglet brønn.

• Norsk King James

  En lukket hage er min søster, min brud; en kilde som er stengt, en brønn som er forseglede.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Min søster, min brud, du er en inngjerdet hage, en lukket kilde, en forseglet brønn.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  En lukket hage er min søster, min brud, en lukket kilde, en forseglet brønn.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  En lukket hage er min søster, min brud; en kilde forseglet, en brønn forseglet.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Min søster, min elskede, er som en inngjerdet hage; en lukket kilde, en forseglet brønn.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  En lukket hage er min søster, min brud; en kilde forseglet, en brønn forseglet.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  En lukket hage er du, min søster, min brud, en lukket kilde, en forseglet brønn.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  A locked garden is my sister, my bride—an enclosed spring, a sealed fountain.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  En lukket hage er min søster, min brud, en lukket kilde, en forseglet brønn.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Min Søster, o Brud! du er en tillukket Have, et tillukket Væld, en beseglet Kilde.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  En lukket hage er min søster, min brud; en innelukket kilde, en forseglet fontene.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  En lukket hage er min søster, min brud; en lukket kilde, en forseglet brønn.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  En inngjerdet hage er min søster-brud, en lukket kilde – en forseglet brønn.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  En lukket hage er min søster, bruden min; en lukket kilde, en forseglet brønn.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  En inngjerdet hage er min søster, min brud; en lukket hage, en hermetisk kilde.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Thou art a well kepte garden (o my sister, my spouse) thou art a well kepte water sprynge, a sealed well.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  My sister my spouse is as a garden inclosed, as a spring shut vp, and a fountaine sealed vp.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  A garden well locked is my sister, my spouse: a garden well locked, and a sealed well.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  A garden inclosed [is] my sister, [my] spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; A locked up spring, A sealed fountain.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  A garden shut up `is' my sister-spouse, A spring shut up -- a fountain sealed.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  A garden shut up is my sister, [my] bride; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.

• World English Bible (2000)

  A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The Wedding Night: The Delightful GardenThe Lover to His Beloved: You are a locked garden, my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 5:15-18 : 15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. 16 Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of water in the streets. 17 Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
• Song 6:2 : 2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
• Song 6:11 : 11 I went down to the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine had flourished, and the pomegranates had budded.
• Isa 58:11 : 11 And the LORD shall guide you continually and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
• Isa 61:10-11 : 10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. 11 For as the earth brings forth her bud, and as the garden causes 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.
• Jer 31:12 : 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall not sorrow anymore at all.
• Hos 6:3 : 3 Then shall we know, if we pursue to know the LORD: his coming is as certain as the morning; and he will come to us like the rain, like the latter and former rain to the earth.
• 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; 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.
• 1 Cor 6:19-20 : 19 What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
• 1 Cor 7:34 : 34 There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
• 2 Cor 1:22 : 22 Who has also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
• Eph 1:13 : 13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
• Eph 4:30 : 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed for the day of redemption.
• Rev 7:3 : 3 Saying, Do not harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.
• Rev 21:27 : 27 And nothing unclean shall ever enter into it, nor anyone who practices abomination or a lie: but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
• Gen 29:3 : 3 And there all the flocks were gathered, and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, then put the stone back on the well's mouth in its place.