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# שִׁירָה

Biblical Hebrew

**song** — 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

song [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5d9_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁירָה: n.f. song [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5d9_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. song (pl. \[שׁ\]ירות Ecclus 39:15);—abs. שׁ׳ Ex 15:1 + 9 times; cstr. שִׁירַת Is 5:1; 23:15; pl. cstr. שִׁירוֹת Am 8:3 (read שָׁרוֹת 𝔊 HoffmZAW iii (1883) We al.);—song, ode, Ex 15:1 (E), 2 S 22:1 = ψ 18:1, Dt 31:19(×2), 21, 22, 30; 32:44; Nu 21:17 (E) Is 5:1; 23:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (19 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: song (6); the song (5); a song (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 21:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.17/#tree)

אָ֚ז יָשִׁ֣יר יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶת־הַשִּׁירָ֖ה הַזֹּ֑את עֲלִ֥י בְאֵ֖ר עֱנוּ־לָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* then it.sang Israel (et) the song (the) this spring.up O.well sing of it

*JPS 1917:* Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well — sing ye unto it —

[Deuteronomy 31:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.31.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.31.30/#tree)

וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר מֹשֶׁ֗ה בְּאָזְנֵי֙ כָּל־קְהַ֣ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶת־דִּבְרֵ֥י הַשִּׁירָ֖ה הַזֹּ֑את עַ֖ד תֻּמָּֽם׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.spoke Moses in the.ears of.all the.assembly of.Israel (et) the.words of the.song (the) this until they were.complete

*JPS 1917:* And Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5d9_5e8_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5d9_5e8_5b8_5d4/): 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).