metselet · cymbals

What it means

metselet (מְצֵלֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cymbals”.

A pair of metal plates sounded by striking one against the other.

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. Metal plates struck together for praise.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Chronicles×8
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1

• 1 Chronicles 13:8

  And David and all Israel were celebrating before Elohim with all their strength, with songs and with lyres and with harps and with tambourines and with cymbals and with trumpets.

• 1 Chronicles 15:16

  David told the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers, the singers, with instruments of song, harps and lyres and cymbals, making themselves heard, lifting up the voice with joy.

• 1 Chronicles 15:19

  And the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, with cymbals of bronze, to make themselves heard;

• 1 Chronicles 15:28

  So all Israel were bringing up the ark of the covenant of YHWH with acclamation and with the sound of the horn, and with trumpets and with cymbals, making themselves heard with harps and lyres.

• 1 Chronicles 16:5

  Asaph the head, and his second, Zechariah; Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with instruments of harps and with lyres; and Asaph with the cymbals, making himself heard;

• 1 Chronicles 16:42

  and with them Heman and Jeduthun, trumpets and cymbals for those making themselves heard, and instruments of song of Elohim; and the sons of Jeduthun were for the gate.

• 1 Chronicles 25:1

  David and the commanders of the army set apart for the service the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The number of the workmen for their service was:

• 1 Chronicles 25:6

  All these were under the direction of their father in the song of the house of YHWH, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, for the service of the house of Elohim, under the direction of the king: Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

• 2 Chronicles 5:12

  and the Levites, the singers, all of them, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, clothed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, were standing east of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding the trumpets;

• 2 Chronicles 5:13

  and it happened, as one, that the trumpeters and the singers were to make one voice heard to praise and to give thanks to YHWH; and when they raised their voice with the trumpets and with cymbals and with instruments of song, and praised YHWH, “For he is good, for his loyal love is forever,” then the house was filled with a cloud, the house of YHWH,

• 2 Chronicles 29:25

  He set the Levites in the house of YHWH with cymbals, with harps, and with lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the seer of the king and of Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was by the hand of YHWH through his prophets.

• Ezra 3:10

  And when the builders founded the temple of YHWH, they set the priests in their vestments with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise YHWH under the direction of David king of Israel.

• Nehemiah 12:27

  And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to hold the dedication and rejoicing, with thanksgivings and with song, cymbals, harps, and with lyres.