6. Disdain me not. In repelling these disdainful looks the Shulamite states first that her dark complexion is adventitious, being merely sun-burnt, and as Rashi remarks, ‏נוח להתלבן כשיעמוד בצל‎, will be white again under the protection of the shade: and secondly, how she came to be so much exposed to the sun, and this she ascribes to the anger of her brothers. This anger, however, as it appears from ii. 8–17, was merely a fraternal solicitude for her reputation, which induced them to give her employment in the vineyards, in order to prevent her meeting her beloved in the field. ‏אַל תִּרְאוּנִי‎ (i.q. ‏אַל תִּרְאֲֽינָה אֹתִי‎, Ewald, § 248), is well explained by the Chald., Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Rashbam, Immanuel, &c., ‏אלֹ תבזוני‎, do not disdain me. ‏רָאָה‎, to see, is also used for looking down upon any one, Job. xli. 26. Instead of ‏תִּרְאֻנִי‎, four of Kennicott’s MSS., two of De Rossi’s, and two more, originally read ‏תיראוני‎, fear me not, which is adopted by Döderlein; but the reading of the received text is both more supported, and suits the connexion better; for it can hardly be possible that the damsel was actually so black as to inspire terror; or that the court ladies were so highly nervous as to be so easily frightened. Hodgson’s rendering, mind me not, is incorrect. The ‏ש‎ in ‏שֶׁאֲנִי‎, stands for ‏אֲשֶׁר‎, the ‏א‎ being rejected by aphaeresis, and the ‏ר‎ assimilated; Gesen. § 36. ‏שְׁחַרְחֹר‎, blackish; adjectives denoting colour have frequently the last two stem letters repeated to render them diminutives; as ‏אֲדַמְדָּם‎, reddish, Lev. xiii. 19; ‏יְרַקְרַק‎, greenish, Lev. xiii. 49. So Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Rashbam, Immanuel, Gesen. § 84. 23; Ewald, § 157 c. ‏שָׁזָף‎, i.q. ‏שָׁדַף‎, to scorch, to burn, Gen. xxiii. 17; xli. 6. So the Syriac, Aquila, Theodotion, Ewald, Gesenius, Meier, Hitzig, &c. The ‏ז‎ and ‏ד‎ frequently interchange, compare ‏גָזַע‎ and ‏גָדַע‎, to cut down; and are even found to do so by the same inspired writer; compare ‏נִדְעֲכוּ‎, Job. vi. 17, with ‏נִזְעֲכוּ‎, xvii. 1. ‏בְּנֵי אִמִּי‎, not step-brothers, (Houbigant, Ewald, Good,) who would not have such power over their sister, but poetically used for ‏אַחַי‎, my brothers. Comp. Gen. xxvii. 20; Ps. l. 20; lxix. 9. ‏נִחָרוּ‎ is the Niphal of ‏חָרַר‎, to burn, (comp. Ps. cii. 4; Gesen. § 6, 7, 8, Rem. 5; Ewald, § 140 a. § 193 c.), and not from ‏חָרָה‎ (Kimchi, Ibn Ezra, Immanuel, &c.) which would be ‏נֶחֱרוּ‎, Is. xli. 11.