The request that the woman turn her eyes away from him further expresses his sense of her power. She can unnerve him with a single glance.1 Her look overwhelms
him. The Hebrew word rahab means to cause to tremble.
She has a mysterious power over him that he finds both fascinating and slightly terrifying.2
5 Turn away your eyes from me, for they overwhelm me Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.