זָמִיר
za.mir
“song”
Definition
a song to be accompanied with instrumental music
or זָמִר; and (feminine) זְמִרָה; from H2167 (זָמַר);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
זָמִיר appears 6 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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:
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.
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.
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker,who gives us songs in the night,
Your statutes are songs to mein the house of my pilgrimage.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.