Ecclesiastes 2:5
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
American King James Version (AKJV)
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
American Standard Version (ASV)
I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;
Basic English Translation (BBE)
I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.
Webster's Revision
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
World English Bible
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
English Revised Version (ERV)
I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit:
Clarke's Ecclesiastes 2:5 Bible Commentary
I made one gardens and orchards - פרדסים pardesim, "paradises." I doubt much whether this be an original Hebrew word. ferdoos, is found in the Persian and Arabic; and signifies a pleasant garden, a vineyard. Hence our word paradise, a place full of delights. How well Solomon was qualified to form gardens, orchards, vineyards, conservatories, etc., may be at once conceived when we recollect his knowledge of natural history; and that he wrote treatises on vegetables and their properties, from the cedar to the hyssop.
Barnes's Ecclesiastes 2:5 Bible Commentary
Orchards - literally, "paradises," i. e., parks or pleasure-grounds (compare Nehemiah 2:8 note). Indications of at least three of these have been pointed out; one at Jerusalem near the pool of Siloam, called "the king's garden" Nehemiah 3:15; Jeremiah 52:7; a second near Bethlehem (compare Ecclesiastes 2:6); and a third in the remote north, on the heights of Hermon Sol 4:8; Sol 8:11.
