What did Solomon mean?

Question

"I am black as the tents of Kedar".< My brothers and sisters make fun of me?>

Answer 1

Utuk that's not what he meant b/c he didn't even say those words.

In the book "The songs of Solomon" six different groups talk.

1.The Shulammite i.e the girl Solomon is in love with
2.Solomon
3The pastor i.e the guy the Shulammite is in love with
4. The Shulammite's brothers.
5. Daughters of Jerusalem i.e the female sevants of Solomon
6. Daughters of Zion i.e women of the city of Jerusalem.

The Song Of Solomon 1:5,6
"I am black but lovely, o daughters of Jerusalem like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.6) Do not stare at me because I am swarthy , for the sun has burned me. My mother's sons were angry with me; They made me caretaker of the vineyards, but I have not taken care of my own vineyards." (NASB)

I believe that's the passage your talking about. The brothers of the Shulammite were angry at her because her boyfriend the pastor invited her to walk through the fields and she accepted. So they made her guard the vineyards from the foxes and because of that reason her skin became dark. Like she said the sun had burned her.

Answer 2

He meant that he was a black man from Ethiopia. When the Song of Solomon was written, there was a very large community of Ethipoian Jews (supposedly descended from Solomon himself) who regularly visited the Temple in Jerusalem.