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Song of Songs

Definition of SONG OF SONGS

:  a collection of love poems forming a book in the canonical Jewish Scriptures and in the Roman Catholic canon of the Old Testament and corresponding to the Song of Solomon in the Protestant canon of the Old Testament — see bible table
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Origin of SONG OF SONGS

translation of Hebrew shīr hashshīrīm
First Known Use: 1597

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