Song of Solomon 6:3

I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
beloved’s	לְדוֹדִי֙ le.do.Di	H1730	(figuratively) to love · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix
beloved	וְדוֹדִ֣י ve.do.Di	H1730	(figuratively) to love · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix
feedeth	הָרֹעֶ֖ה ha.ro.'Eh	H7462	to tend a flock · definite article + verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
lilies	בַּשׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים ba.sho.sha.Nim	H7799	a lily (from its whiteness) · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine plural absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Song of Solomon 2:16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Song of Solomon 7:10 I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and…
Revelation 21:2-4 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

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Commentary

John Gill on Song of Solomon 6:3

I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine,.... Expressive of interest in Christ, and union to him, and of her faith therein; which still continued, notwithstanding her unbecoming behavior toward Christ, and her many infirmities, Sol 5:2. Aben Ezra connects the words with the preceding, "my beloved is gone", &c. but though he is, and I am left alone, I know I am his, and he is mine; which throws a beauty upon the words, and declares the excellency and strength of her faith; for herein lies the glory and excellency of faith, to believe in an unseen Christ: though it may be the Shechinah was with her, as the Targum has it; or Christ had now appeared to her, and was found by her, and therefore,…

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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Song of Solomon 6:1-3

The conversation that ends this poem indicates that it is not an actual event. The dream ends as the young women of Jerusalem ask the woman where her man has gone. The woman tells them not to concern themselves with finding him—he is back in bed with her, enjoying his garden with its spice beds and lilies, a description of sexual intimacy.

Rashi on Song of Solomon 6:3

Who grazes among the roses. Who grazes his sheep in a calm and goodly pasture.

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The Church Fathers

He is, indeed, your true bridegroom. He is also your brother. He is likewise your friend. He is your inheritance. He is your reward. He is God and the Lord. You have in him a bridegroom to love: "For he is fair in beauty above the sons of men." … He is a friend of whom you need not doubt, for he himself says, "You are my only lover." You have in him the inheritance that you may embrace, for he is himself the portion of your inheritance. You have in him the reward that you may recognize, for his blood is your redemption. You have in him God by whom you may be ruled, the Lord to fear and honor.
— Leander of Seville, THE TRAINING OF NUNS, PREFACE

So long as Christ wishes there to be one church of all nations, whoever is a stranger to the church is not considered a part of the body of Christ, even though he uses the name of Christian. That heresy which rejects the unity of the Catholic church is to him a concubine and not a wife, in that it loves Christ with an adulterous love, since Scripture says that there are actually two in one flesh, that is, Christ and the church, in which there is no third place for a harlot. "One is my friend, one is my bride, only daughter of her mother." Of whom, likewise, the same church speaks, saying, "My lover belongs to me, and I to him."
— Leander of Seville, HOMILY ON THE TRIUMPH OF THE CHURCH

"I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine," etc. I prepare a delightful pasture for my beloved in the beds of spices, that is, in the pure hearts of the faithful, and my beloved to me, who is fed among the holy desires of chaste minds, returns this in exchange for His grace by fulfilling the same desires of His faithful ones whom He has nurtured. He fulfills them by plucking them from this paradise of sacred pleasure and gathering them into the secret chambers of the heavenly mansions, where before His glory, with eternal immortality of flesh and spirit, they shine brightly with a dual aspect like lilies, that is, both golden and white, and as if spreading the sweet fragrance of their virtues throughout all the inhabitants of the eternal homeland. Thus far, the voice of the holy Church is heard, seeking and praising her Lord and desiring to see His face; but since He can never be absent from His lovers, but where two or three are gathered in His name, there He is in the midst of them, indeed even if one of His own is enclosed among lions, detained in the depths of the sea, or surrounded by the belly of a whale, if separated from other mortals, there He is with him. Therefore, His voice follows, declaring to those who search for Him and converse about Him that He was always present with them and heard what they spoke about, rewarding their devotion to Him with worthy praise, saying:

Dictionary and topics

Lily — The Hebrew name shushan or shoshan, i.e., “whiteness”, was used as the general name of several plants common to Syria, such as the tulip, iris, anemone, gladiolus, ranunculus, etc. Some interpret it,…
Flowers · Cultivated in gardens — Cultivated in gardens

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).