זָמִיר
zâmîyr · H2158 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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singing, song
Action by which one expresses utters words at a set or improvised tune, whether accompanied by musical instruments and dancing or not
Examples2 Samuel 23:1 Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse declares, The man who was raised on high, The anointed of the God of Jacob And the sweet psalmist of Israel, declares,
Job 35:10 “But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,
Psalm 95:2 Let’s come before His presence with a song of thanksgiving, Let’s shout joyfully to Him in songs with instruments.
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pruning
Causative action by which someone cuts away or cuts back unproductive branches so that they can produce better
ExamplesSong of Solomon 2:12 ‘The blossoms have already appeared in the land; The time has arrived for pruning the vines, And the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land.
How it’s used In 6 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
- יִשְׂרָאֵלIsrael 1
- עָרִיץmighty 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- צַדִּיקrighteous, just, right 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָנָהto afflict, to humble 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
- שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָעִיםpleasant, lovely 1
- עֵתtime, moment, period 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- שִׁיר shîyr · H7892 · song
- Both words denote song and singing, and either could stand for the content of what is sung.
- נְגִינָה nᵉgîynâh · H5058 · stringed instrument, music
- זָמִיר emphasizes vocal music (psalm, singing); נְגִינָה often denotes stringed-instrument music but also attested as song.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Sing002004001009006
- זָמִיר/מִזְמוֹר denotes a song or psalm, as at 2 Samuel 23:1 — "the sweet psalmist of Israel" — and Psalm 95:2 — "Let's come before His presence with a song of thanksgiving."
- Non-Whole002003001021
- This entry carries no non-whole/incomplete sense of its own; the domain is bundle-shared and does not reflect an independent attested usage of this song/psalm lexeme naming incompleteness.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2158. zamir I. [זָמִיר] noun masculineIsa 25:5 song (compare BaNB 136) — construct…
I. [זָמִיר] noun masculineIsa 25:5 song (compare BaNB 136) — construct זְמִיר Isa 25:5; plural absolute זְמִרוֺת Job 35:10 Job 35:2t., זְמִרֹת Isa 24:16; construct זְמִרוֺת 2Sa 23:1; — song ישׂראל זְמִרוֺת נְעִים 2Sa 23:1 in epithet of David; Job 35:10; Isa 24:16; of (hostile) Songs of triumph עָרִיצִים זְמִיר Isa 25:5 (|| זָרִים שְׁאוֺן); song in praise of לוֺ נָרִיעָה בִּזְמִרוֺת ׳י Psa 95:2 (|| תודה), compare ׳ז חֻקֶּיךָ לי היו Psa 119:54, i.e. they are the subject of my song. — On Son 2:12 see II. זמיר below II. זמר.
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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