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The Places of Song of Songs

Song of Songs names 17 places; Jerusalem, Lebanon and Gilead most often. 17 of them can be put on a map, 15 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.

Map of The Holy Land with the places named in Song of Songs. Every place is listed in the table below.34°E35°E36°E30°N31°N32°N33°NJerusalemBaal-hamonBath-rabbimDamascusHeshbonMahanaimMount CarmelMount HermonSenirTirzahZionJerusalemLebanonGileadBaal-hamonBath-rabbimDamascusEngediMount CarmelMount HermonSenirSharonTirzahN040 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
The Holy Land, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today. 2 places lie beyond the plate and are in the table.

Every place in Song of Songs

The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn. References follow the chapter and verse numbering of the English Bible, which differs from the Septuagint’s in places.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
Jerusalem1:5, 2:7, 3:5, 3:10, 5:8, 5:16, 6:4, 8:4OpenBible.infoHigh
Lebanon3:9, 4:8, 4:11, 4:15, 5:15, 7:4OpenBible.infoHigh
Gilead4:1, 6:5OpenBible.infoHigh
AmanaBeyond this plate.4:8OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 171)
Baal-hamon8:11OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 40)
Bath-rabbim7:4OpenBible.infoHigh
Damascus7:4OpenBible.infoHigh
Engedi1:14OpenBible.infoHigh
Heshbon7:4OpenBible.infoHigh
KedarBeyond this plate.1:5OpenBible.infoHigh
Mahanaim6:13OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount Carmel7:5OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount Hermon4:8OpenBible.infoHigh
Senir4:8OpenBible.infoHigh
Sharon2:1OpenBible.infoHigh
Tirzah6:4OpenBible.infoHigh
Zion3:11OpenBible.infoHigh

Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain.