זִמְרָה
zimrâh · H2172 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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music
Poetic term: words set to music
ExamplesPsalm 81:2 Raise a song, strike the tambourine, The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.
Psalm 98:5 Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, With the lyre and the sound of melody.
Isaiah 51:3 Indeed, the LORD will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her ruins. And He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, Thanksgiving and the sound of a melody.
How it’s used In 3 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נֶבֶלharp, jar 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 1
- שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- קוֹלvoice, sound 2
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
- מַנְגִּינָה mangîynâh · H4485 · mocking song
- Both words denote musical sound or song, in overlapping senses.
- שִׁיר shîyr · H7892 · song
- Both denote musical content—זִמְרָה (zimrâh, H2172) melody or psalm, שִׁיר (shîyr, H7892) song—plausibly substitutable when referring to sung or musical composition.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ψαλμός psalmós · G5568 · song of praise, psalm
- ψαλμός (psalmós, G5568) is the Greek equivalent for זִמְרָה (zimrâh, H2172), both denoting sacred song or psalm; the Hebrew term emphasizes the melody/tune aspect while the Greek term more explicitly references the formal literary/liturgical composition, but they translate each other directly in contexts of worship music.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Sing002004001009006
- זִמְרָה denotes a melody or song, as at Psalm 98:5 — "With the lyre and the sound of melody" — and Amos 5:23 — "I will not even listen to the sound of your harps" (the melody produced by them).
- Strong002001001063
- This entry carries no independently attested strength sense of its own; the domain is bundle-shared and does not reflect an independent attested usage of this melody lexeme naming strength as such.
- Good002001001031
- This entry carries no independently attested goodness sense of its own distinct from its core melody sense; the domain is bundle-shared. The genuine sense is covered under the melody bullet above.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2172. zimrah I. זִמְרָה noun feminine melody, song, in praise of ׳י — absolute ׳ז Psa…
I. זִמְרָה noun feminine melody, song, in praise of ׳י — absolute ׳ז Psa 81:3 Psa 81:2t.; זִמְרָת Exo 15:2; Psa 118:14; Isa 12:2, read זִמְרָתִ(יׅ (see DiEx SS); construct זִמְרַת Amo 5:23, on Gen 43:11 see below; —
1 of instrumental music נְבָלֶיךָ וְזִמְרַת Amo 5:23 (|| שִׁריך המון).
2 of singing ז וקול ׳תּוֺדָה Isa 51:3; as subject of song יָהּ וְזִמְרָתִי עֻזִּי (so read) Exo 15:2; Isa 12:2; Psa 118:14.
3 not clearly determined עםנָָֽֿבֶלָ ׳שְׂאוּזֿ נעים כנור וּתְנותֹֿ֑ף Psa 81:3; ז וקול ׳בכנור Psa 98:5 (compare III. זמר near the end). — On הארץ מִזִּמְרַת Gen 43:11 see זמרה below
זִמְרָת see I. זִמְרָה. above
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 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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