זַן
zan · H2178 · Aramaic · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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kind, sort
A group of items sharing similar characteristics
ExamplesDaniel 3:5 that at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all kinds of musical instruments, you are to fall down and worship the golden statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.
Daniel 3:7 Therefore as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all kinds of musical instruments, all the peoples, nations, and populations of all languages fell down and worshiped the golden statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
Daniel 3:10 “You, O king, have made a decree that every person who hears the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, and bagpipe, and all kinds of musical instruments, is to fall down and worship the golden statue.
How it’s used In 2 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
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- זְמָרmusick 4
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָלsound 4
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 1 word
- מִין mîyn · H4327 · kind, species
- Hebrew מִין is the more common and widely attested term for 'kind' or 'species' in Biblical Hebrew (used prominently in Genesis 1 creation account for 'according to their kinds'). זַן appears to be a rarer, possibly Aramaic-influenced synonym for the same semantic notion of categorical type or kind.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Description002001
- Daniel 3:5 recounts that Nebuchadnezzar's herald proclaimed, “at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all kinds of musical instruments, you are to fall down and worship the golden statue.”
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
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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