זָמִיר
zamir · song
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2158 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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zamir (זָמִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “song”.
A song, a psalm: a song accompanied with instruments. From the same root as "sing praise."
How to say it
za·mir
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Music for the voice, with instruments.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- songs ×4
- psalms ×1
- song ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Samuel 23:1
These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, and the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the Elohim of Jacob, and the pleasant one in the psalms of Israel:
- Job 35:10
But no one says, ‘Where is Eloah my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
- Psalms 95:2
Let us come to meet his face with thanksgiving; with songs let us raise a shout to him.
- Psalms 119:54
Your statutes have been songs to me in the house of my pilgrimages.
- Isaiah 24:16
From the end of the earth we have heard songs: “Ornament for the righteous!” But I said, “Leanness to me, leanness to me! Woe to me! Traitors betray, and with betrayal traitors betray.”
- Isaiah 25:5
Like heat in a dry land, the uproar of strangers you subdue; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the tyrants is brought low.