The English text has titled this book as The Song of Solomon. The Hebrew text, however, reads: The Song of Songs, Which is Solomon’s In the Hebrew construction there is a repetition of the noun in the genetive, thus making it a superlative. It is THE Song of Songs, the one song surpassing all other songs. The song is one of many composed by Solomon and of his 1,005 songs (1 Kings 4:32), it is the choicest of his songs. This is the force of the Hebrew construction. Similar Hebrew
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