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# הִגָּיוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1902

**resounding music** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

resounding music [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1902/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הִגָּיוֹן: n.m. resounding music, meditation, musing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1902/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. resounding music, meditation, musing;—ה׳ abs. ψ 9:17; 92:4; cstr. הֶגְיוֹן ψ 19:15; sf. הֶגְיוֹנָם La 3:62;— resounding music; עֲלֵי הִגָּיוֹן בְּכִנּוֹר ψ 92:4 with sounding music upon the lyre (Che); cf. ה׳ סֶ֑לָה ψ 9:17 (a musical direction, v. סלה). meditation, musing אִמְרֵי־פִי וְהֶגְיוֹן לִבִּי ψ 19:15 the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart; also in bad sense = plotting שִׂפְתֵי קָמַי וְהֶגְיוֹנָם עָלַי La 3:62 the lips of those rising against me, and their imagining against me (‖ מַחְשְׁבֹתָם v 61; cf. I. הָגָה 3 b).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Higgaion (1); a melody (1); muttering (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 92:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.92.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.92.4/#tree)

עֲ‍ֽלֵי־עָ֭שׂוֹר וַעֲלֵי־נָ֑בֶל עֲלֵ֖י הִגָּי֣וֹן בְּכִנּֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* on a.ten and on a.lyre on a.melody with a.harp

*JPS 1917:* With an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery; with a solemn sound upon the harp.

[Lamentations 3:62](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.62/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.62/#tree)

שִׂפְתֵ֤י קָמַי֙ וְהֶגְיוֹנָ֔ם עָלַ֖י כָּל־הַיּֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* the.lips of \[those.who\].rise.against.me and muttering their on me all the day

*JPS 1917:* The lips of those that rose up against me, and their muttering against me all the day.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1902/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).