Was King Solomon black

Answer 1

According to some, The Bible says King Solomon was black.

-LAMENTATIONS 4:8

"Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick."

-LAMENTATIONS 5:10

"Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine."

-JOB 30:30

"My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat."

The Song Of Solomon is King Solomon speaking. In poetry language rules are different even in intiquity. ... The world teaches the lie that this is some concubine or the Queen of Sheba speaking. I challenge anyone to come forth and prove according to Scripture that this is some "concubine" or the "Queen of Sheba" speaking instead of Solomon himself.

SHAYAR HASHAYARYAM 1:5

"Sha-chaa-war-ha an-ya, wa-na-ah-wah, ban-wath Ya-raw-sha-lam, ka-ah-hal-ya Qa-dar, ka-ya-ra-ya-i-wath Sha-la-mah."

The first part of this verse which reads "Sha-chaa-war-ha an-ya" literally translates to "I am dark skinned"!

Let's look up the meaning of the word for black, "shachar", as used in this verse for proof:

This is the definition of shachar from The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible:

7838. Shachar from 7835; prop. dusky, but also (absol.) jetty:--- black

So the word "shachar" means "dusky". Let's look that word up and see what it means:

The definition of the word dusky from The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Tenth Edition:

dusky - adj. (-ier, -iest) darkish in colour. euphemistic, dated or poetic/literary (of a person) black; dark-skinned.

1. Solomon described himself as black in Song of Solomon 1:5

2. The word "black" as used in Song of Solomon 1:5 in the ancient Hebrew is defined in The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (widely regarded as one of the top concordances of the Bible) as "dusky"

3. The word "dusky" when defined in a dictionary as pertains to a person means dark skinned!

Answer 2

Yes king Solomon was a black king as he mentions it in the book of Songs.

Answer:

Solomon was David's son and was a Jew. Let the Bible interpret itself. In the Song of Songs (Solomon) there are 2 players here: King Solomon and the Shulamite woman who he is in love (lust) with. In Chapter 1, verse 5 she says, 'I am dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem.' So is she black or just dark coloring from working in the vineyard? Probably the ladder as she is speaking to the Jerusalem woman of the King's Court and the point she is making is that she is a hardworking woman unlike the class raised in comfort and conditions of ease. But she knows her beauty is in no way diminished by her class, she is indeed 'lovely.'

Answer 3

The notion that Solomon could have been black seems to have arisen from a misunderstanding of the Song of Solomon, also known as the Song of Songs, a poem that tells the sexual experiences and thoughts of a woman whose skin was darkened by the sun. Although Song of Songs is attributed to Solomon, the language and style indicate that it was written after the end of the Babylonian Exile. Rabbi Akiva insisted on its inclusion in the Hebrew Bible, holding that it was the holiest of all the scriptures, but forbade its singing in beerhalls. It has been suggested that the Song of Solomon was originally the libretto of a small Opera of the day.

While there is nothing known about Solomon from extra-biblical evidence, the Old Testament does make it clear that Solomon is considered to have been Semitic. On that basis, he would have had brown skin.