זָמִיר
zâmîyr · zaw-meer'
a song to be accompanied with instrumental music
Lexicon
Derivation: or זָמִר; and (feminine) זְמִרָה; from H2167 (זָמַר);
a song to be accompanied with instrumental music
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: psalm(-ist), singing, song.
Letters
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to cut, to sustain › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the hand that works › the head, the highest
To cut, to sustain of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the hand that works of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זָמִיר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
6 occurrences · 6 OT · 0 NT · 6 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- songs2 · 33%
- psalmist1 · 17%
- unto him with psalms1 · 17%
- have been my songs1 · 17%
- of the singing1 · 17%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.