The Song of Songs 4:13

Your shoots are a royal garden ¹  full of pomegranates with choice fruits: henna with nard,

Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard,

"Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates With choice fruits, henna with nard plants,

You are like a lovely orchard bearing precious fruit, with the rarest of perfumes:

Body and soul, you are paradise, a whole orchard of succulent fruits--Ripe apricots and peaches, oranges and pears; Nut trees and cinnamon, and all scented woods;

The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,

Your channel is an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard,

Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates With pleasant fruits, Fragrant henna with spikenard,

Your shoots are a royal garden ¹  full of pomegranates with choice fruits: henna with nard,

¹ sn The noun פַּרְדֵּס (pardes, “garden, parkland, forest”) is a foreign loanword that occurs only 3 times in the Hebrew Bible (Song 4:13; Eccl 2:5; Neh 2:8). The original Old Persian (Avestan) term pairidaeza designated the enclosed parks and pleasure-grounds which were the exclusive domain of the Persian kings and nobility in the Achaemenid period (HALOT 963 s.v. פַּרְדֵּס; LSJ 1308). The Babylonian term pardesu means “marvelous garden,” in reference to the enclosed parks of the kings (AHw 2:833.a and 3:1582.a). The term passed into Greek as παραδείσος (paradeisos, “enclosed park, pleasure-ground”), referring to the enclosed parks and gardens of the Persian kings (LSJ 1308). The Greek term was transliterated into English as “paradise.”