זִמְרָה
zimra · melody, song
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2172 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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zimra (זִמְרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “melody, song”.
A song with instrumental accompaniment, a melody.
How to say it
zim·ra
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
- Sound of voices and strings.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- song ×3
- melody ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 81:2
Raise a song and sound the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.
- Psalms 98:5
Sing psalms to YHWH with the lyre, with the lyre and the voice of song.
- Isaiah 51:3
For YHWH will comfort Zion, he will comfort all her ruins; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her Arabah like the garden of YHWH; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of song.
- Amos 5:23
Take away from me the noise of your songs, and the melody of your harps I will not hear.