page_title: Song of Songs 1
section_title: Verse 4
hierarchical_section_title: Song of Songs 1 / Female: Longing for her lover (1:2–7) / Verse 4
caption_attribution_description: English: Comparison the typefaces of the word אחריך (Cant 1:4a) in the Leningrad Codex and the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia to illustrate the omission of the 'Rafe' diacritic in most print editions of the Hebrew Bible.
context_page_description: Song of Songs 1 is the first chapter of a book called "Song of Songs" or "Song of Solomon" in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book is one of the Five Megillot, a collection of short books, together with Book of Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther, within the Ketuvim, the third and the last part of the Hebrew Bible. Jewish tradition views Solomon as the author of this book, and this attribution influences the acceptance of this book as a canonical text, although this is now largely disputed. This chapter contains the superscription, songs of the main female characters and the opening song of the male character.
context_section_description: According to the New King James Version (NKJV)
  [The Shulamite]
  Draw me away!
  [The Daughters of Jerusalem]
  We will run after you.
  [The Shulamite]
  The king has brought me into his chambers.
  [The Daughters of Jerusalem]
  We will be glad and rejoice in you.
  We will remember your love more than wine.
  [The Shulamite]
  Rightly do they love you.
  "You": masculine singular, referring to "the Beloved" ("the man").
  "You": feminine singular, referring to "the Shulamite" ("the woman").
caption: The word "אחריך", meaning "after you", from Song of Solomon 1:4a in the Leningrad Codex (hand-written) and in the Hebrew Bible print edition of the BHS (which omits the Rafe diacritic)
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