Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2158
זָמִיר
zamirzaw-meer'
song
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zâmîyr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2158is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2158
a song to be accompanied with instrumental music
The King James renders it: psalm(-ist), singing, song.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
zamir is rendered "song". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 23:1These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised on high, the one anointed by the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel:
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised on high, the one anointed by the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel:
2 Samuel 23:1זְמִר֥וֹת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- songs3
- song of1
- songs of1
- with songs1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| זָמִיר | zamir | branch | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בִּ֝זְמִר֗וֹת1
- זְמִ֥יר1
- זְ֭מִרוֹת1
- זְמִר֥וֹת1
- זְמִר֣וֹת1
- זְמִרֹ֤ת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural3HNcfpa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · feminine plural1HR/Ncfpa
2 Samuel
one use
These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised on high, the one anointed by the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel:
- זְמִר֥וֹתzemirotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: songs of
Job
one use
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
- זְמִר֣וֹתzemirotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: songs
Psalms
two uses
Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
- בִּ֝זְמִר֗וֹתbizmirotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: with songs
Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
- זְ֭מִרוֹתzemirotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: songs
Isaiah
two uses
From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery.
- זְמִרֹ֤תzemirotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: songs
like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
- זְמִ֥ירzemirnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: song of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.