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# נְגִינָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5058

**music** — used 14 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

music [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5058/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְגִינָה: n.f. music [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5058/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. music;—abs. נְגִינַת ψ 61:1 (v. infr.); sf. נְגִינָתִי ψ 77:7; נְגִינָתָם Jb 30:9 + 2 times; pl. נְגִינוֹת ψ 4:1 + 6 times; נְגִינוֹתַי Is 38:20; -תָ֑י Hb 3:19;— music (of stringed instr.) acc. cogn. Is 38:20; as occupation La 5:14; especially בִּנְגִינוֹת in ψ-titles; ψ 4:1; 6:1; 54:1; 55:1; 67:1; 76:1; so Hb 3:19; cf. עַל־נְגִינַת ψ 61:1 (read perhaps pl. Ges§ 80 f.). song (with string accomp.?) ψ 77:7; subject of mocking song Jb 30:9 (‖ מִלָּה, ψ 69:13 (נ׳ שׁוֹתֵי שֵׁכָר), La 3:14 (‖ שְׂחֹק).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 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: stringed instruments (8); song (3); a stringed instrument (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 61:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.61.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.61.1/#tree)

לַמְנַצֵּ֬חַ ׀ עַֽל־נְגִינַ֬ת לְדָוִֽד׃

*Word for word:* to the choirmaster on a.stringed.instrument of David

*JPS 1917:* For the Leader; with string-music. A Psalm of David.

[Psalms 67:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.67.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.67.1/#tree)

לַמְנַצֵּ֥ח בִּנְגִינֹ֗ת מִזְמ֥וֹר שִֽׁיר׃

*Word for word:* to the choirmaster with stringed.instruments a.psalm a.song

*JPS 1917:* For the Leader; with string-music. A Psalm, a Song.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5058.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5058/): 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).