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5 Bible Verses About Roses

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  • The Hebrew word behind “rose of Sharon”, chabatstseleth, occurs twice, in Song of Songs 2:1 and Isaiah 35:1.
  • The King James Version translates that word “rose” in both verses; the NIV has “rose” in Song of Songs 2:1, with a footnote calling it probably a member of the crocus family, and “crocus” in Isaiah 35:1.
  • In the NIV’s headings the woman says “I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.”
  • Rhoda, the servant who hears Peter at the door in Acts 12:13, has a name that probably comes from the Greek word for a rose.
  • Sirach 24:14, 39:13 and 50:8 and Wisdom 2:8, in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles, name roses outright.

The rose of English Bibles translates a Hebrew flower name that appears twice, and the flower it names was probably not a rose. In Song of Songs 2:1 the woman says, “I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.” An NIV footnote calls the flower “probably a member of the crocus family”. The NIV heads that line “She”, with a footnote “Or He”. The Hebrew word for the flower, chabatstseleth, occurs in Song of Songs 2:1 and…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version. Quotations marked KJV are from the King James Version, and those from Sirach and Wisdom are from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE).

Bible Gateway. Song of Songs 2, New International Version, with the footnote on 2:1: “Probably a member of the crocus family.” biblegateway.com

Strong’s Hebrew 2261, חֲבַצֶּלֶת (chabatstseleth): rose, probably meadow-saffron or crocus; two occurrences, Song of Songs 2:1 and Isaiah 35:1. biblehub.com/hebrew/2261

Strong’s Hebrew 7799, שׁוֹשָׁן (shushan, shoshannah): lily. biblehub.com/hebrew/7799

Strong’s Greek 4498, Ῥόδη (Rhodē): Rhoda, “probably for rhode (a rose)”; the NAS Exhaustive Concordance gives “from rhodon (a rose)”. biblehub.com/greek/4498

Bible Gateway. Sirach 39 and Wisdom 2, New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition. Sirach 39, Wisdom 2

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. New American Bible Revised Edition, Sirach 39 and Wisdom 2. Sirach 39, Wisdom 2

Wikipedia. Book of Sirach and Book of Wisdom, on their place in Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Bibles. Book of Sirach, Book of Wisdom

The Church of England. Articles of Religion, Article VI. churchofengland.org

The Holy See. Litany of Loreto. vatican.va

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