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Numbers 24:6

They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.

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ASV

As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river-side, As lign-aloes which Jehovah hath planted, As cedar-trees beside the waters.

KJV

As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.

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11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּנְחָלִ֣יםkin.cha.Limlike wadisH5158 →
נִטָּ֔יוּni.Ta.yu[which] they are stretched outH5186 →
כְּגַנֹּ֖תke.ga.Notlike gardensH1593 →
עֲלֵ֣י'a.LeiatH5921 →
נָהָ֑רna.Hara riverH5104 →
כַּאֲהָלִים֙ka.'a.ha.Limlike aloesH174 →
נָטַ֣עna.Ta'[which] he has plantedH5193 →
יְהוָ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
כַּאֲרָזִ֖יםka.'a.ra.Zimlike cedarsH730 →
עֲלֵי־'a.lei-atH5921 →
מָֽיִם׃Ma.yimwatersH4325 →

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Psalms 92:12The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.Psalms 1:3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.Isaiah 58:11The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.Psalms 104:16The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,Psalms 92:12–14The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.Jeremiah 31:12They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.Genesis 2:8–10And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.Jeremiah 17:18Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.Song of Solomon 4:12–15My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.Isaiah 41:19I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,Psalms 45:8All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad.Joel 3:18And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.Song of Solomon 6:11I went down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding or the pomegranates were in bloom.Ezekiel 47:12Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”Genesis 13:10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)Ezekiel 31:3–4Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds.1 Kings 4:33He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.Song of Solomon 4:14with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.

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