זִמְרִי
Zimrîy · zim-ree'
Zimri, the name of five Israelites, and of an Arabian tribe
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2167 (זָמַר); musical;
Zimri, the name of five Israelites, and of an Arabian tribe
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Zimri.
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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to cut, to sustain › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the head, the highest › the hand that works
To cut, to sustain of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the head, the highest of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זִמְרִי 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
15 occurrences · 15 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and zimri5 · 33%
- zimri3 · 20%
- of zimri2 · 13%
- was zimri1 · 7%
- thus did zimri1 · 7%
- did zimri1 · 7%
- and it came to pass, when zimri1 · 7%
- had zimri1 · 7%
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.