Bible Strands
Song of Solomon 6:1
Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Shulamite women address the daughters of Jerusalem, asking for the location of the beloved after his sudden absence. The speaker addresses the addressee as "the most beautiful among women" while proposing a collective search.
The words — אָ֚נָה ('A.nah) translates literally as "where?" and appears twice to stress the need for precise direction. פָּנָ֣ה (pa.Nah) means "has he turned," indicating the specific path the beloved took.
The thread — The search for the beloved appears in Song of Solomon 1:8, where the woman is instructed to follow the flock's tracks, and Song of Solomon 5:9, where friends question his unique qualities. Jeremiah 14:8 mirrors the structure of direct questioning regarding divine presence during crisis.
Why it lands — The text requires a reader to treat devotion as an active inquiry rather than a passive state. It demands that seekers identify both the destination and the direction before pursuing.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
Cross-references
- Song of Solomon 1:8 If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.
- Song of Solomon 5:9 How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?
- Jeremiah 14:8 O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
- Ruth 2:12 May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”
- Ruth 1:16 But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
- Song of Solomon 1:4 Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.
- Song of Solomon 2:2 Like a lily among the thorns is my darling among the maidens.
- Song of Solomon 6:4 You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.
- Song of Solomon 6:9 but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises.
- Isaiah 2:5 Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.