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# זָמִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2158

**song** — used 7 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

song [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2158/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָמִיר: n.m. song [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2158/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 25:5 song (cf. BaNB 136)—cstr. זְמִיר Is 25:5; pl. abs. זְמִרוֹת Jb 35:10 + 2 times, זְמִרֹת Is 24:16; cstr. זְמִרוֹת 2 S 23:1;—song נְעִים זְמִרוֹת ישׂראל 2 S 23:1 in epith. of David; Jb 35:10 Is 24:16; of (hostile) song of triumph זְמִיר עָרִיצִים Is 25:5 (‖ שְׁאוֹן זָרִים); song in praise of י׳ בִּזְמִרוֹת נָרִיעָה לוֹ ψ 95:2 (‖ תודה), cf. ז׳ היו לי חֻקֶּיךָ 119:54, i.e. they are the subject of my song.—On Ct 2:12 v. ii. זמיר sub II. זמר.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: songs (4); \[the\] song (1); of the songs (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 95:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.95.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.95.2/#tree)

נְקַדְּמָ֣ה פָנָ֣יו בְּתוֹדָ֑ה בִּ֝זְמִר֗וֹת נָרִ֥יעַֽ לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* let.us.come.to.meet face his with thanksgiving with songs let.us.shout.for.joy to him

*JPS 1917:* Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, let us shout for joy unto Him with psalms.

[Psalms 119:54](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.54/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.54/#tree)

זְ֭מִרוֹת הָֽיוּ־לִ֥י חֻקֶּ֗יךָ בְּבֵ֣ית מְגוּרָֽי׃

*Word for word:* songs they.have.been for me decrees your in the.house my.sojournings my

*JPS 1917:* Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2158/): 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).