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# תֹּף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8596

**timbrel** — used 16 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

timbrel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8596/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֹּף²: n.m. timbrel, tambourine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8596/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. timbrel, tambourine;—abs. ת׳ Gn 31:27 +; pl. תֻּפִּים Ju 11:34 +; sf. תֻּפֶּ֫יךָ Ez 28:13, תֻּפַּ֫יִךְ Je 31:4;—timbrel, held and struck with hand, especially by dancing women, often with other musical instr.:—sign of merriment, gladness Gn 31:27 (E) Jb 21:12, revelry Is 5:12; מְשׂוֹשׂ ת׳ 24:8, cf. Je 31:4; Ez 28:19 (Co setting); triumph Ex 15:20(×2) (E) Ju 11:34; 1 S 18:6; Is 30:32; used by prophets in ecstasy 1 S 10:5; in praise of י׳ 2 S 6:5 ‖ 1 Ch 13:8, ψ 81:3; 149:3; 150:4.—Vid. PrinceEB Music, § 3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: tambourines (7); tambourine (6); a tambourine (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 81:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.3/#tree)

שְֽׂאוּ־זִ֭מְרָה וּתְנוּ־תֹ֑ף כִּנּ֖וֹר נָעִ֣ים עִם־נָֽבֶל׃

*Word for word:* lift.up music and beat a.tambourine a.harp pleasant with a.lyre

*JPS 1917:* Take up the melody, and sound the timbrel, the sweet harp with the psaltery.

[Isaiah 24:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.8/#tree)

שָׁבַת֙ מְשׂ֣וֹשׂ תֻּפִּ֔ים חָדַ֖ל שְׁא֣וֹן עַלִּיזִ֑ים שָׁבַ֖ת מְשׂ֥וֹשׂ כִּנּֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* it.has.ceased \[the\].joy of.tambourines it.has.stopped \[the\].uproar of.exultant.\[people\] it.has.ceased \[the\].joy of.\[the\].harp

*JPS 1917:* The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8596.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8596/): 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).