单词 | song of songs |
释义 | > as lemmasSong of Songs Song of Songs n. (also †Book of Songs) (the name of) one of the books of the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures, traditionally attributed to Solomon; frequently with the. [After post-classical Latin canticus canticorum, itself after biblical Hebrew šir ha-širim , showing an idiomatic construction expressing a superlative or elative, also seen in holy of holies n. at holy n. 5. Compare (also after Hebrew) Hellenistic Greek Ἄσμα Ἀσμάτων . ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > divisions of Old Testament > [noun] > song of Solomon love-book?c1225 Song of Songsa1382 Canticaa1400 canticles1526 Song of Solomon1548 OE Ælfric Let. to Sigeweard (De Veteri et Novo Test.) (Laud) 37 Seo þridde [boc] ys gecweden Cantica Canticorum, þæt segð on Englisc ‘ealra sanga fyrmest’.] a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Song of Sol. i. (heading) Heer gynneth the booc that is clepid Songus of Songis [altered from Song of Songis]. c1400 Bk. to Mother (Laud) 15 (MED) Þis song of þe Bok of Songes I haue told forto knowe þe bettere þi gostly wittes of þi soule. 1553 Expos. Bks. Holie Script. sig. D.vj The thirde is the booke of Canticles... It is called The song of songes. 1611 Bible (King James) Song of Sol. i. 1 The song of songs, which is Solomons. View more context for this quotation 1781 A. Francis Poet. Transl. Song of Solomon Prelim. Disc. p. ii The Song of Songs is no human composition, but the work of an inspired penman. 1803 J. M. Good (title) Song of Songs: or, Sacred Idyls. Translated from The Original Hebrew. 1880 Art Jrnl. 6 260/2 The bride and her companions of the bath have supper together, and love songs, not unlike the Song of Songs, are sung. 1901 Monist 11 531 The most important and most interesting folk-poetry preserved in the Bible is the Song of Songs, a collection of love-songs and bridal-hymns. 1967 R. Rendell Wolf to Slaughter (1970) vi. 78 As a schoolboy, Drayton had read the Song of Songs, hoping for something salacious. 2004 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 29 Mar. (Metropolitan section 17) Of all the books included in the Bible, Song of Songs is perhaps the most astonishing given the erotic nature of its poetry. < as lemmas |
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