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The TanakhKetuvim

Song of Songsשיר השירים

The Song of Songs is eight chapters of love poetry read in Jewish tradition as the bond between God and Israel, and it is read in many communities on the Shabbat of Passover. Tradition says Hezekiah and his company set it in writing.

Chapters
8
Verses
117
Words
1,251
Letters
5,151

Song of Songs 1:1, the first of 117 verses

שִׁ֥יר הַשִּׁירִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לִשְׁלֹמֹֽה׃

THE song of songs, which is Solomon’s.