נְגִינָה
nᵉgîynâh · H5058 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences
Meanings
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stringed instrument
Musical instrument with strings, such as a lute or lyre
ExamplesPsalm 4:1 For the music director; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.
Psalm 6:1 For the music director; with stringed instruments, upon an eight-string lyre. A Psalm of David.
Psalm 54:1 For the music director; on stringed instruments. A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Is David not keeping himself hidden among us?”
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music
Action by which humans play an instrument with strings, such as a lute or lyre, which can be for silent meditation or to accompany singing and dancing
ExamplesPsalm 77:6 I will remember my song in the night; I will meditate with my heart, And my spirit ponders:
Isaiah 38:20 “The LORD is certain to save me; So we will play my songs on stringed instruments All the days of our life at the house of the LORD.”
Lamentations 5:14 Elders are absent from the gate, Young men from their music.
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mocking song
A song, written and sung to make fun of someone
ExamplesJob 30:9 “And now I have become their taunt, And I have become a byword to them.
Psalm 69:12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me, And songs of mockery by those habitually drunk are about me.
Psalm 77:6 I will remember my song in the night; I will meditate with my heart, And my spirit ponders:
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
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- הֶםtheir 3
- שָׁתָהto drink 1
- יmy 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- זָכַרto remember 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
9 occurrences in 3 groups
- בin/on/with 7
- מִןfrom 1
- 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- זָמִיר zâmîyr · H2158 · singing, song, pruning
- זָמִיר emphasizes vocal music (psalm, singing); נְגִינָה often denotes stringed-instrument music but also attested as song.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ὕμνος hýmnos · G5215 · hymn
- נְגִינָה (nᵉgîynâh, H5058) denotes the instrumental medium (stringed instrument music), while ὕμνος (hýmnos, G5215) denotes the vocal/textual genre (hymn, religious ode); the pairing reflects LXX contexts where instrumental accompaniment and sung praise co-occur, particularly in psalm superscriptions.
- ψαλμός psalmós · G5568 · song of praise, psalm
- נְגִינָה (nᵉgîynâh, H5058) refers to the physical stringed instrument or its music, while ψαλμός (psalmós, G5568) denotes a composed sacred song/ode typically accompanied by such instruments; the Greek term encompasses both the musical composition and its liturgical function in the Psalter.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Musical Instruments001003001001013
- נְגִינָה denotes a stringed instrument, appearing in the heading "Neginoth" attached to numerous psalms (Psalm 4:1, 6:1, 54:1, 55:1) indicating musical accompaniment on such an instrument.
- Play002003001013
- The word is closely tied to the act of playing music, functioning as a performance-direction term marking a psalm intended to be played on stringed instruments.
- Sing002004001009006
- The word can also denote a song itself, as at Job 30:9's use of the term for a mocking song or byword sung about the sufferer, tying the word to sung composition as well as its instrumental accompaniment.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5058. neginah or neginath [נְגִינָה] noun feminine music; — absolute נְגִינַת Psa 61:1…
or neginath [נְגִינָה] noun feminine music; — absolute נְגִינַת Psa 61:1 (see below); suffix נְגִינָתִי Psa 77:7; נְגִינָתָם Job 30:9 Job 30:2t.; plural נְגִינוֺת Psa 4:1 Psa 4:6t.; נְגִינָתַי Isa 38:20; תָ֑י- Hab 3:19; —
1 music (of stringed instrument) accusative of congnate meaning with verb Isa 38:20; as occupation Lam 5:14; especially בִּנְגִינוֺת in Psalm-titles; Psa 4:1; Psa 6:1; Psa 54:1; Psa 55:1; Psa 67:1; Psa 76:1; so Hab 3:19; compare עַלנְֿגִינַת Psa 61:1 (read perhaps plural Ges§ 80f.).
2 song (with string accompare?) Psa 77:7; subject of mocking song Job 30:9 (|| מִלָּה), Psa 69:13 (׳נ שֵׁכָר שׁוֺתֵי), Lam 3:14 (|| שְׂחֹק).
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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