הִגָּיוֹן
higgâyôwn · H1902 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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meditation
Action by which humans speaks softly for themselves as if thinking out loud
ExamplesPsalm 19:14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, LORD, my rock and my Redeemer.
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words
Action by which humans utter words with the focus on what is said
ExamplesLamentations 3:62 The lips of my assailants and their talk Are against me all day long.
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higgaion, muted music
Meaning unsure; possibly: action by which humans play musical instruments with reduced intensity
ExamplesPsalm 9:16 The LORD has made Himself known; He has executed judgment. A wicked one is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion Selah
Psalm 92:3 With the ten-stringed lute and with the harp, With resounding music on the lyre.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- לֵבheart, mind 1
- הֶםtheir 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נִיme 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Speak002004001009008
- הִגָּיוֹן can denote meditation or musing thought, as in the Psalmist's prayer that the meditation of his heart be acceptable before God.
- Play002003001013
- הִגָּיוֹן also functions as a musical notation, Higgaion, marking a solemn instrumental interlude within the performance of a psalm.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1902. higgayon הִגָּיוֺן noun masculine resounding music, meditation, musing; — ׳ה…
הִגָּיוֺן noun masculine resounding music, meditation, musing; — ׳ה absolute Psa 9:17; Psa 92:4; construct הֶגְיוֺן Psalm 19:15; suffix הֶגְיוֺנָם Lam 3:62; —
1 resounding music; בְּכִנּוֺר חִגָּיוֺן עֲלֵי Psa 92:4 with sounding music upon the lyre (Che); compare ׳ה סֶ֑לָה Psa 9:17 (a musical direction, see סלה).
2 meditation, musing לִבִּי וְהֶגְיוֺן אִמְרֵיפִֿי Psalm 19:15 the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart; also in bad sense = plotting עָלַי וְהֶגְיוֺנָם קָמַי שֹׂפְתֵי Lam 3:62; the lips of those rising against me, and their imagining against me (|| מַחְשְׁבֹתָם Lam 3:61; compare I.הָגָה 3b).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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