Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4700
מְצֵלֶת
metselethmets-ay'-leth
cymbal
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉtsêleth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4700is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4700
(only dual) double tinklers, i.e. cymbals
The King James renders it: cymbals.
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
metseleth is rendered "cymbal". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Eight of the uses stand in 1 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.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.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
1 Chronicles 13:8וּבִמְצִלְתַּ֖יִם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's thirteen uses are in 1 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and with cymbals4
- with cymbals4
- and cymbals2
- with the cymbals2
- cymbals1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- בִּמְצִלְתַּ֙יִם֙3
- וּבִמְצִלְתָּ֑יִם2
- בִּמְצִלְתַּ֥יִם1
- בַּֽמְצִלְתַּ֥יִם1
- בַּֽמְצִלְתַּ֔יִם1
- וּבִמְצִלְתַּ֖יִם1
- וּבִמְצִלְתַּ֜יִם1
- וּמְצִלְתַּ֙יִם֙1
- וּמְצִלְתָּ֑יִם1
- מְצִלְתַּ֖יִם1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine dual4HC/R/Ncfda
- preposition + noun · feminine dual4HR/Ncfda
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine dual2HC/Ncfda
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine dual2HRd/Ncfda
- noun · feminine dual1HNcfda
1 Chronicles
eight uses
David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
- וּבִמְצִלְתַּ֖יִםuvimtziltayimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine dualtagged: and with cymbals
David also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.
- וּמְצִלְתָּ֑יִםumetziltayimconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine dualtagged: and cymbals
The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals.
- בִּמְצִלְתַּ֥יִםbimtziltayimpreposition + noun · feminine dualtagged: with cymbals
So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and with cymbals and the music of harps and lyres.
- וּבִמְצִלְתָּ֑יִםuvimtziltayimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine dualtagged: and with cymbals
Asaph was the chief, Zechariah was second, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel. They were to play the harps and lyres, while Asaph sounded the cymbals
- בַּֽמְצִלְתַּ֥יִםbamtziltayimpreposition with the article + noun · feminine dualtagged: with the cymbals
Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for the songs of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were stationed at the gate.
- וּמְצִלְתַּ֙יִם֙umetziltayimconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine dualtagged: and cymbals
Additionally, David and the commanders of the army set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy with the accompaniment of lyres, harps, and cymbals. The following is the list of the men who performed this service:
- וּבִמְצִלְתָּ֑יִםuvimtziltayimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine dualtagged: and with cymbals
All 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.
- בִּמְצִלְתַּ֙יִם֙bimtziltayimpreposition + noun · feminine dualtagged: with cymbals
2 Chronicles
three uses
all 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.
- בִּמְצִלְתַּ֙יִם֙bimtziltayimpreposition + noun · feminine dualtagged: with cymbals
The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud
- וּבִמְצִלְתַּ֜יִםuvimtziltayimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine dualtagged: and with cymbals
Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet. For the command had come from the LORD through His prophets.
- בִּמְצִלְתַּ֙יִם֙bimtziltayimpreposition + noun · feminine dualtagged: with cymbals
Ezra
one use
When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise the LORD, as David king of Israel had prescribed.
- בַּֽמְצִלְתַּ֔יִםbamtziltayimpreposition with the article + noun · feminine dualtagged: with the cymbals
Nehemiah
one use
At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from all their homes and brought to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing, accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.
- מְצִלְתַּ֖יִםmetziltayimnoun · feminine dualtagged: cymbals
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.