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Ecclesiastes 2:5

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— I made gardens and parks for myself and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees;
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all [kind of] fruits:
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit:
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all [kind of] fruits:
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit;
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— I made me gardens, and parks,—I planted in them trees of every kind of fruit;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— I haue made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them trees of all fruite.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— I made mee gardens & orchards, and I planted trees in them of all [kinde of] fruits.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them trees of all kinds of fruit;
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— I made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them every kind of fruit-tree.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all [kind of] fruits:

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
I made 6213
{6213} Prime
עָשָׂה
`asah
{aw-saw'}
A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
me gardens 1593
{1593} Prime
גַּנָּה
gannah
{gan-naw'}
Feminine of H1588; a garden.
and orchards, 6508
{6508} Prime
פַּרְדֵּס
pardec
{par-dace'}
Of foreign origin; a park.
and I planted 5193
{5193} Prime
נָטַע
nata`
{naw-tah'}
A primitive root; properly to strike in, that is, fix; specifically to plant (literally or figuratively).
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
trees 6086
{6086} Prime
עֵץ
`ets
{ates}
From H6095; a tree (from its firmness); hence wood (plural sticks).
in them of all x3605
(3605) Complement
כֹּל
kol
{kole}
From H3634; properly the whole; hence all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense).
[kind of] fruits: 6529
{6529} Prime
פְּרִי
p@riy
{per-ee'}
From H6509; fruit (literally or figuratively).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Ecclesiastes 2:3-11.


Ecclesiastes 2:5

_ _ gardensHebrew, “paradises,” a foreign word; Sanskrit, “a place enclosed with a wall”; Armenian and Arabic, “a pleasure ground with flowers and shrubs near the king’s house, or castle.” An earthly paradise can never make up for the want of the heavenly (Revelation 2:7).

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Ecclesiastes 2:1-11.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
me:

Song of Songs 4:12-16 A garden inclosed [is] my sister, [my] spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. ... Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, [that] the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
Song of Songs 5:1 I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Song of Songs 6:2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Jeremiah 39:4 And it came to pass, [that] when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

I planted:

Genesis 2:8-9 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. ... And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Luke 17:27-29 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. ... But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed [them] all.
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Gn 2:8. So 4:12; 5:1; 6:2. Jr 39:4. Lk 17:27.

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