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# מְצִלְתַּיִם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4700

**cymbals** — used 13 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

cymbals [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4700/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְצִלְתַּיִם: n.f.du. cymbals [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4700/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.du. cymbals (appar. later equiv. of צֶלְצְלִים where v. reff.);—מ׳ 1 Ch 13:8 (‖ 2 S 6:5 v. צֶלְצְלִים), 15:19; 16:5, 42; 25:6; 2 Ch 5:12, 13; 29:25; Ezr 3:10; Ne 12:27; -תָּ֑יִם 1 Ch 15:16, 28; 25:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cymbals (12); the cymbals (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 15:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.19/#tree)

וְהַמְשֹׁ֣רְרִ֔ים הֵימָ֥ן אָסָ֖ף וְאֵיתָ֑ן בִּמְצִלְתַּ֥יִם נְחֹ֖שֶׁת לְהַשְׁמִֽיעַ׃

*Word for word:* and the singers Heman Asaph and Ethan with cymbals bronze to sound.aloud

*JPS 1917:* So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed, with cymbals of brass to sound aloud;

[1 Chronicles 16:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.16.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.16.42/#tree)

וְעִמָּהֶם֩ הֵימָ֨ן וִֽידוּת֜וּן חֲצֹצְר֤וֹת וּמְצִלְתַּ֙יִם֙ לְמַשְׁמִיעִ֔ים וּכְלֵ֖י שִׁ֣יר הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וּבְנֵ֥י יְדוּת֖וּן לַשָּֽׁעַר׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] with them Heman and Jeduthun trumpets and cymbals for \[those.who\].sound.aloud and.(the) instruments of.(the).song of.(the) God and the.sons of.Jeduthun \[were\].to the gate

*JPS 1917:* and with them Heman and Jeduthun, to sound aloud with trumpets and cymbals, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4700.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4700/): 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).