Lexicon
זָמִיר
za.mir
H2158
H:N-M Hebrew

song

6
Occurrences
4
Books
Hebrew
Language

za.mir denotes songs or musical utterance, including praise, celebration, and songs associated with particular people or circumstances.

The term denotes songs or musical utterance across varied settings: thanksgiving and praise, songs in the night, statutes received as songs, Israel's musical song, and the song of hostile people that is humbled.

Senses in use

  1. Songs and musical utterance in varied settings · dominant

    The plural form occurs with thanksgiving and shouting in Psalm 95:2, with praise heard from the earth's ends in Isaiah 24:16, and as songs given in the night in Job 35:10. It also describes statutes as songs in Psalm 119:54 and Israel's musical song in 2 Samuel 23:1; the singular construct form in Isaiah 25:5 is set in the clause where the song of the ruthless is humbled.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with "musical song," "songs of praise," "the song of the ruthless," and "songs," depending on the verse's wider clause. These renderings show the verse-level presentation rather than fixed English equivalents.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture