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So 4:13 King James Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
orchard--Hebrew, "a paradise," that is, a pleasure-ground and orchard. Not only flowers, but fruit trees (Joh 15:8; Phi 1:11).

camphire--not camphor (Sol 1:14), hennah, or cypress blooms.
 
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14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
11 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
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.
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
6 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.
1 I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
12 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
13 A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,
15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.