The name "rose of Sharon" first appears in Hebrew in the Tanakh. In the Shir Hashirim ('Song of Songs' or 'Song of Solomon') , the speaker (the beloved) says "I am the rose of Sharon, a rose of the valley". The Hebrew phrase חבצלת השרון ("ḥăḇatzeleṯ hasharon") was translated by the editors of the King James version of the Bible as "rose of Sharon"; however, previous translations had rendered it simply as "the flower of the field" (Septuagint ""ἐγὼ ἄνθος τοῦ πεδίου"", Vulgate ""ego flos campi"",Wiclif "a flower of the field").