page_title: Song of Songs 5
section_title: Verse 2
hierarchical_section_title: Song of Songs 5 / Structure / Female: A second search at night for her dream lover (5:2-8) / Verse 2
caption_attribution_description: English: Book cover for Das Hohelied. Deutsch: Einbanddecke für Das Hohelied.
context_page_description: Song of Songs 5 is the fifth chapter of the Song of Songs 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 at present largely disputed. This chapter contains a few parts starting with the man's response to the woman's acceptance of his invitation; the second part is the refusal of the woman to welcome the man into her room at night, and when she changes her mind, he already disappears; in the next part she looks for him in the city and in the last part she describes how fair the man is to the daughters of Jerusalem.
context_section_description: "My love" (or "my [female] friend"; Hebrew: רעיתי, ra'-yā-ṯî) a specific term of endearment used by the man for the woman that is used 9 times in the book (Song 1:9,15; 2:2,10,13; 4:1,7; 5:2; 6:4). The masculine form of the same root word to call the man ("my [male] friend"; Hebrew: רעי, rê-'î) is used in a parallel construction with "my beloved" (Hebrew: דודי, ḏōḏî) in Song 5:16. The repetition of "my (sister), my (love), my (dove), my (undefiled) is thought to enact the "knocking" of the beloved.
  "Locks": "curls" or "hair"
caption: Book cover by Ephraim Moses Lilien for Das Hohelied, depicting the themes of doves and lilies.
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