זָמַר
zâmar · zaw-mar'
play upon it; to make music, accompanied by the voice; hence to celebrate in song and music
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root (perhaps identical with H2168 (זָמַר) through the idea of striking with the fingers); properly, to touch the strings or parts of a musical instrument, i.e.
play upon it; to make music, accompanied by the voice; hence to celebrate in song and music
- play upon it
- to make music, accompanied by the voice
- hence, to celebrate in song and music
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: give praise, sing forth praises, psalms.
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
- 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 head, the highest
To cut, to sustain of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זָמַר 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
45 occurrences · 45 OT · 0 NT · 29 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- sing praises7 · 17%
- sing4 · 10%
- i will sing3 · 7%
- and i will sing praises2 · 5%
- unto him, sing psalms2 · 5%
- and give praise2 · 5%
- will i sing2 · 5%
- i will sing praises2 · 5%
- and will sing praise1 · 2%
- in thee: i will sing praise1 · 2%
- and sing praises1 · 2%
- and praise1 · 2%
- yea, i will sing praises1 · 2%
- may sing1 · 2%
- sing ye praises1 · 2%
- so will i sing1 · 2%
- sing forth1 · 2%
- thee, and shall sing1 · 2%
- unto thee; they shall sing1 · 2%
- o sing praises1 · 2%
- unto thee will i sing1 · 2%
- when i sing1 · 2%
- and to sing praises1 · 2%
- and sing1 · 2%
- will i sing praise1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
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.