Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A garden. 2. (n.) An enclosure 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. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia ORCHARD or'-cherd: (1) pardec, from Old Persian, "a walled-in enclosure"; paradeisos, 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"; Songs 4:13, "orchard," margin "paradise" (of pomegranates); Ecclesiastes 2:5, "parks," the King James Version "orchards"; see PARADISE. (2) kepos, "garden" or "orchard": "a white thorn in an orchard" (Baruch 6:71).

Multi-Version Concordance Orchard (3 Occurrences) Exodus 23:11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove. (See RSV) Song of Songs 4:13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants, (WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV) Song of Songs 6:11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower. (See NAS RSV)