Hebrew noun (feminine) · H2172
זִמְרָה
zimrahzim-raw'
melody
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zimrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2172is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2172
a musical piece or song to be accompanied by an instrument
The King James renders it: melody, psalm.
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
zimrah is rendered "melody". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 81:2Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
Psalms 81:2זִ֭מְרָה
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
- music3
- and music of1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- וְזִמְרַ֥ת1
- זִ֭מְרָה1
- זִמְרָֽה׃1
- זִמְרָֽה׃ ס1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular3HNcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncfsc
Psalms
two uses
Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
- זִ֭מְרָהzimrahnoun · feminine singulartagged: music
Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, in melodious song with the harp.
- זִמְרָֽה׃zimrahnoun · feminine singulartagged: music
Isaiah
one use
For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
- זִמְרָֽה׃ סzimrahnoun · feminine singulartagged: music
Amos
one use
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
- וְזִמְרַ֥תvezimratconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and music 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.