What Does Song of Solomon 5:1 Mean in the King James?
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.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The beloved is welcomed not merely to taste, but to become intoxicated by shared delight.
THE MEANING
You meet intimacy here as embodied abundance: myrrh with spice, honeycomb with honey, wine with milk, all tasted rather than held at a distance. The welcome widens to friends, and its final verb makes delight something that can saturate the senses.
THE ROOT
וְשִׁכְרוּ
weshikru
GROWS FROM
שכר
š-k-r
To become drunk or intoxicated.
Within “drink abundantly,” the Hebrew verb carries the vivid sense of becoming intoxicated. The invitation reaches beyond quantity to a fullness that saturates the senses.
ALSO GROWS
shekhar: Strong or intoxicating drink.
שֵׁכָר
This related word makes the invitation’s language of abundance tangible in the drink itself.
shikkor: Drunk or intoxicated.
שִׁכּוֹר
This form shares the root’s sense of being overtaken by drink, echoing the verse’s final invitation.
דּוֹדִים
dodim
GROWS FROM
דוד
d-w-d
Beloved intimacy; love and caresses.
The address rendered “beloved” comes from a word-family also used for lovers’ caresses. It keeps the welcome in the verse’s sensual register, even as the feast opens outward to friends.
ALSO GROWS
dodi: My beloved.
דּוֹדִי
This form appears in the preceding invitation for the beloved to enter the garden.
dodim: Loves or caresses.
דּוֹדִים
The same form can name intimate love, giving the address a bodily warmth beyond a distant title.
THE PATTERN
Scripture pictures fullness as something placed within reach and opened through an invitation to partake.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.THE THREAD
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.The Hebrew forms דּוֹדִי (dodi, “my beloved”) here and דּוֹדִים (dodim, “beloved”) in 5:1 share the root דוד (d-w-d), naming intimate love. The invitation to enter the garden and eat its fruits becomes, in 5:1, a completed arrival and feast.
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