The Song of Songs 4:12

The Lover to His Beloved: You are a locked garden, ¹  my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.

Pr 5:15-18; So 6:2,11; Isa 58:11; Isa 61:10,11; Jer 31:12; Ho 6:3; 1Co 6:13,19,20; 1Co 7:34; 2Co 1:22; Eph 1:13; Eph 4:30; Re 7:3; Re 21:27

¹ sn The twin themes of the enclosed garden and sealed spring are highlighted by the wordplay (paronomasia) between the Hebrew expressions גַּן נָעוּל (gan na’ul, “a garden locked up”) and גַּל נָעוּל (gal na’ul, “an enclosed spring”).