What Does Song of Solomon 7:11 Mean in the King James?
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
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 word for “beloved” shares its Hebrew root with a word for love’s caresses, so intimacy here becomes an invitation into shared life.
THE MEANING
The verse meets you in desire that asks to be shared in time and place: come close, go out together, and stay. The beloved is not only named; intimacy takes the shape of a journey into open space and lingering there.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that love is only a private feeling or a name spoken from a distance. Here desire becomes a concrete invitation into shared movement and dwelling.
THE ROOT
דּוֹדִי
dōdî
GROWS FROM
דוד
d-w-d
Beloved; the word family also describes intimate affection and caresses.
The Hebrew word דּוֹדִי (dōdî, “my beloved”) shares its root with דּוֹדִים (dōdîm, “loves” or “caresses”). English can make “beloved” sound like a fixed title, while this word family keeps the beloved bound to living affection that moves into shared space.
ALSO GROWS
dōd: Beloved; also a close male relative or kinsman.
דּוֹד
The address belongs to a language of intimate relation, not merely a descriptive label.
dōdîm: Loves or caresses; rendered “thy love” in Song of Solomon 1:2.
דּוֹדִים
This same root ties being called beloved to tenderness enacted between lovers.
THE PATTERN
Intimacy takes shape through an invitation into shared presence.
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.THE THREAD
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.Song 7:11 calls the lover דּוֹדִי (dōdî, “my beloved”), while Song 1:2 uses דּוֹדֶיךָ (dōdecha, “your loves” or “caresses”) from the same דוד (d-w-d) root. That shared root lets “beloved” carry the texture of active affection, deepening this invitation into a lived encounter.
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