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# שִׁיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7892

**song** — used 77 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/1513/7892/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁיר: n.m. song [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7892/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. song (NH id.; so Ecclus 40:21 +);—שׁ׳ abs. Ju 5;12 +, cstr. 2 Ch 29:27 +; sf. שִׁירִי ψ 28:7, etc.; pl. שִׁירִים 1 Ch 13:8; Ct 1:1; שִׁרִים Gn 31:27; Pr 25:20; sf. שִׁרֶ֫יךָ Am 5:23, etc.;— lyric song, + מָשָׁל 1 K 5:12, opp. קִינָה Am 8:10; joyous Gn 31:27 (J) Is 30:29; שׁ׳ עגבים Ez 33:32; triumphal Ju 5:12; love song Ct 1:1(×2) (title שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים), ψ 45:1 (שִׁיר יְדִידֹת); noisy Am 5:23 Ez 26:13, in drunken revels Is 24:9, cf. 23:16; שׁ׳ כסילים Ec 7:5; not for sorrow Pr 25:20 ψ 137:3(×2); בְּנוֹת הַשִּׁיר Ec 12:4 songstresses (prob. birds). religious song, in worship, ‖ תפלה ψ 42:9; usually praise, הלל בשׁיר 69:31; מִשִּׁירִי אֲהוֹדֶנּוּ 28:7; שִׁיר תְּהִלָּה וְהוֹדוֹת Ne 12:46; שׁיר י׳ ψ 137:4 2 Ch 29:27; שׁיר חדשׁ Is 42:10 (fresh outburst), + 6 times, v. חָדָשׁ; in ψ-titles, שׁיר 46:1, cf. Is 26:1; שׁיר המעלות pilgrim songs ψ 120:1 + 14 times (v. ii. מַעֲלָה p. 752); c. מִזְמוֹר ψ 48:1 + 12 times (v. מִז׳ p. 274); מַשְׂכִּיל שִׁיר 45:1; (שׁ׳ orig. alone in all except 30:1; 92:1; 108:1, v. BrJBL xviii (1899), 138). specif. song of Levitical choirs, with musical accomp., 1 Ch 6:16, 17; 13:8 (so read also ‖ 2 S 6:5 for בְּרוֹשִׁים, 𝔊 Th and mod., cf. ב׳), 25:6, 7; 2 Ch 23:18; 29:28 Ne 12:27; כלי (ה)שׁיר instrument to accompany song 1 Ch 15:16 + 6 times (v. כְּלִי 2 b); cf. Am 6:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 39 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (23 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (19 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a song (25); the song (18); song (16).

## In the verses

[Psalms 83:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.1/#tree)

שִׁ֖יר מִזְמ֣וֹר לְאָסָֽף׃

*Word for word:* a.song a.psalm of Asaph

*JPS 1917:* A Song, a Psalm of Asaph.

[Psalms 108:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.108.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.108.1/#tree)

שִׁ֖יר מִזְמ֣וֹר לְדָוִֽד׃

*Word for word:* a.song a.psalm of David

*JPS 1917:* A Song, a Psalm of David.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7892.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7892/): 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).