Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters are firs, I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys!

New American Standard Bible

“The beams of our houses are cedars,
Our rafters, cypresses.

King James Version

The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

Holman Bible

the beams of our house are cedars,
and our rafters are cypresses.


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International Standard Version

The beams of our house are cedar, our rafters are pine.

A Conservative Version

The beams of our house are cedars, our rafters are firs.

American Standard Version

The beams of our house are cedars, And our rafters are firs.

Amplified


“The beams of our houses are cedars,
Our rafters and panels are cypresses.

Bible in Basic English

Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.

Darby Translation

The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters are cypresses.

Julia Smith Translation

The walls of our houses cedars, our carved ceilings, cypresses.

King James 2000

The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

Lexham Expanded Bible

the beams of our house [are] cedar; our rafter [is] cypress.

Modern King James verseion

The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters are of fir.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

the ceilings of our house are of Cedar tree, and our balks of Cypress.

NET Bible

the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber; the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.

New Heart English Bible

The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs.

The Emphasized Bible

The beams of our house, are cedars, Our fretted ceiling, is cypress-trees.

Webster

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. Beloved

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The beams
קרה קורה 
Qowrah 
Usage: 5

of our house
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

ארז 
'erez 
Usage: 73

and our rafters
רחיטo 
R@chiyt 
Usage: 1

References

American

Fir

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Mutual Admiration

16 Lo, thou art fair, my love, yea, pleasant, Yea, our couch is green, 17 The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters are firs, I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys!



Cross References

1 Kings 6:9

And he buildeth the house, and completeth it, and covereth the house with beams and rows of cedars.

2 Chronicles 2:8-9

and send to me cedar-trees, firs, and algums from Lebanon, for I have known that thy servants know to cut down trees of Lebanon, and lo, my servants are with thy servants,

Psalm 92:12

The righteous as a palm-tree flourisheth, As a cedar in Lebanon he groweth.

Song of Songs 7:5

Thy head upon thee as Carmel, And the locks of thy head as purple, The king is bound with the flowings!

Song of Songs 8:9

If she is a wall, we build by her a palace of silver. And if she is a door, We fashion by her board-work of cedar.

Ezekiel 41:16

the thresholds, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about them three, over-against the threshold, a ceiling of wood all round about, and the ground unto the windows and the covered windows,

Ezekiel 42:3

Over-against the twenty cubits that are to the inner court, and over-against the pavement that is to the outer court, is gallery over-against gallery, in the three storeys.

1 Timothy 3:15-16

and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth thee to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth,

Hebrews 11:10

for he was looking for the city having the foundations, whose artificer and constructor is God.

1 Peter 2:4-5

to whom coming -- a living stone -- by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,

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