Orchard

King James Dictionary

OR'CHARD, n. See Yard.

An inclosure for fruit trees. In Great Britain, a department of the garden appropriated to fruit trees of all kinds, but chiefly to apple trees. In America, any piece of land set with apple trees, is called an orchard and orchards are usually cultivated land, being either grounds for mowing or tillage. In some parts of the country, a piece of ground planted with peach trees is called a peach orchard. But in most cases, I believe the orchard in both countries is distinct from the garden.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Orchard ( pardçs [a Pers. loan-word],   Ecclesiastes 2:5 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘parks’;   Song of Solomon 4:13 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘paradise’;   Nehemiah 2:8 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘forest,’ RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘park’). See Paradise.

E. W. G. Masterman.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Nehemiah 9:25 Ecclesiastes 2:5 Song of Solomon 6:11 Ecclesiastes 2:5 Song of Solomon 4:13  Ecclesiastes 2:5 Song of Solomon 4:13

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; - used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees.

(2): ( n.) A garden.

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

 Song of Solomon 4:13 (c) We may understand this to be a sweet expression which describes the various groups of GOD's people. In these groups our Lord delights to make His abode, and to enjoy the fruitfulness and the fragrance of their worship.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Orchard. See Garden .

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

ORCHARD. —See Garden.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ôr´chẽrd  : (1) פּרדּס , pardēṣ , from Old Persian, "a walled-in enclosure"; παράδεισος , parádeisos , a word in classical Greek applied to the garden of Babylon (Diodorus Siculus xi. 10) and to a game park (Xenophon, Anab . i. 2,7). See   Nehemiah 2:8 , "forest," margin "park";  Song of Solomon 4:13 , "orchard," margin "paradise" (of pomegranates);  Ecclesiastes 2:5 , "parks," the King James Version "orchards"; see Paradise . (2) κῆπος , kḗpos , "garden" or "orchard": "a white thorn in an orchard" (Baruch 6:71).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is the rendering in the A.V. of פִּרְדֵּס , Pardes, a Park or garden planted with trees ( Ecclesiastes 2:5;  Song of Solomon 4:14; forest,"  Nehemiah 2:8); and of Oliretium ("orchard of olives"), an olive-yard ( 2 Esdras 16:29). (See Garden); (See Olive-Yard).