negina · song, mocking song

What it means

negina (נְגִינָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “song, mocking song”.

A song, music of stringed instruments; also the mocking song sung about someone.

How to say it

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

1. What is played on strings to accompany a psalm.
2. Something sung, sometimes in mockery.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• stringed instruments ×8
• song ×3
• I am the ditties ×1
• music ×1
• stringed instrument ×1

Where it appears

• Job×1
• Psalms×9
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×2
• Habakkuk×1

• Job 30:9

  But now I have become their song, and I am to them a byword.

• Psalms 4:1

  For the director. With stringed instruments. A psalm of David. When I call, answer me, Elohim of my righteousness. In distress you gave me room; show me favor and hear my prayer.

• Psalms 6:1

  For the director. With stringed instruments, on the eighth. A psalm of David. YHWH, do not rebuke me in your anger, nor correct me in your fury.

• Psalms 54:1

  For the director. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Is not David hiding among us?” Elohim, by your name save me, and by your might judge me.

• Psalms 55:1

  For the director. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David. Give ear, Elohim, to my prayer, and do not hide yourself from my supplication.

• Psalms 61:1

  For the director. On a stringed instrument. Of David. Hear, Elohim, my cry; attend to my prayer.

• Psalms 67:1

  For the director. With stringed instruments. A psalm. A song. May Elohim show us favor and bless us; may he make his face shine with us. Selah.

• Psalms 69:12

  Those who sit in the gate talk about me, and I am the ditties of those who drink intoxicating drink.

• Psalms 76:1

  For the director. With stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song. Known in Judah is Elohim; in Israel great is his name.

• Psalms 77:6

  I remember my song in the night; with my heart I speak, and my spirit searches:

• Isaiah 38:20

  YHWH is there to save me; and my stringed instruments we will play all the days of our life at the house of YHWH.”

• Lamentations 3:14

  I have become a laughingstock to all my people, their song all the day.

• Lamentations 5:14

  The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

• Habakkuk 3:19

  YHWH Adonai is my strength, and he makes my feet like those of the deer, and on my high places he makes me walk. For the director. With my stringed instruments.