Ecclesiastes Chapter 2 verse 5 Holy Bible

ASV Ecclesiastes 2:5

I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;
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BBE Ecclesiastes 2:5

I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.
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DARBY Ecclesiastes 2:5

I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit;
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KJV Ecclesiastes 2:5

I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
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WBT Ecclesiastes 2:5


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WEB Ecclesiastes 2:5

I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
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YLT Ecclesiastes 2:5

I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - I made me gardens and orchards. Solomon's love of gardens appears throughout the Canticles (Song of Solomon 6:2, etc.). He had a king's garden on the slope of the hills south of the city (2 Kings 25:4); and Beth-hacchemm, "the House of the Vine," at Ain Karim, about six miles east of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 6:1); and at Baal-hamon another extensive vineyard (Song of Solomon 8:11). The word rendered "orchard" (parder) occurs also in Song of Solomon 4:13 and Nehemiah 2:8. It is a Persian word, and passed into the Greek form παράδειος (Xenophon, 'Anab.,' 1:2.7), meaning "a park" planted with forest and fruit trees, and containing herds of animals. It is probably derived from the Zend oairidaeza," an enclosure." (For the trees in such parks, see Song of Solomon 4:13, 14; and for an estimate of Solomon's works, Josephus, 'Ant.,' 8:07. 3.)

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Orchards.--Rather, parks. The word, which occurs also in Song of Solomon 4:3, Nehemiah 2:8, is originally Persian, and passed into the Greek and into modern languages in the form of "paradise" (Luke 23:43; 2Corinthians 12:4; and in LXX., Genesis 2:10; Genesis 13:10; Numbers 24:6; Isaiah 1:30; Ecclesiasticus 24:30; Susan. 5:4). Parks and trees giving, not only fruit, but shade from the hot Eastern sun, were an almost necessary part of kingly luxury. The king's garden is spoken of in 1Kings 21:2; 2Kings 21:18; 2Kings 25:4; Nehemiah 3:15. . . .