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Psalms 68:25

The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.

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ASV

The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, In the midst of the damsels playing with timbrels.

KJV

The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
קִדְּמ֣וּki.de.Muthey went in frontH6923 →
שָׁ֭רִיםSha.rimsingersH7891 →
אַחַ֣ר'a.Char[were] behindH310 →
נֹגְנִ֑יםno.ge.NimmusiciansH5059 →
בְּת֥וֹךְbe.Tokhin amongH8432 →
עֲ֝לָמ֗וֹתa.la.Motyoung womenH5959 →
תּוֹפֵפֽוֹת׃to.fe.Fotplaying tambourinesH8608 →

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1 Chronicles 13:8David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.Psalms 68:11The Lord gives the command; a great company of women proclaim it:Judges 11:34And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.Exodus 15:20Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.Psalms 92:3with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.1 Samuel 18:6As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.Revelation 14:2–3And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and the loud rumbling of thunder. And the sound I heard was like harpists strumming their harps.Revelation 15:2–3And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,Psalms 77:13Your way, O God, is holy. What god is so great as our God?2 Chronicles 5:12all the Levitical singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.Psalms 148:12young men and maidens, old and young together.Psalms 150:3–5Praise Him with the sound of the horn; praise Him with the harp and lyre.Jeremiah 31:4Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.Psalms 87:7Singers and pipers will proclaim, “All my springs of joy are in You.”Jeremiah 31:13Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.Psalms 148:12–13young men and maidens, old and young together.Isaiah 38:20The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.1 Chronicles 25:6All these were under the direction of their fathers for the music of the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the direction of the king.

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