שִׁיר
shîyr · sheer
to sing
Lexicon
Derivation: or (the original form) שׁוּר; (1 Samuel 18:6), a primitive root (rather identical with H7788 (שׁוּר) through the idea of strolling minstrelsy);
to sing
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: behold (by mistake for H7789 (שׁוּר)), sing(-er, -ing man, -ing woman).
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- 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 consume, to destroy › the hand that works › the head, the highest
To consume, to destroy of the hand that works of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שִׁיר 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
87 occurrences · 87 OT · 0 NT · 60 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- sing11 · 16%
- and the singers10 · 15%
- i will sing9 · 13%
- the singers5 · 7%
- of the singers5 · 7%
- and singing women3 · 4%
- then sang2 · 3%
- sang2 · 3%
- for singers2 · 3%
- singing men2 · 3%
- o sing2 · 3%
- them, sing1 · 1%
- i, even i, will sing1 · 1%
- singing1 · 1%
- of singing men1 · 1%
- a singer1 · 1%
- and these are the singers1 · 1%
- to be the singers1 · 1%
- so the singers1 · 1%
- with the singers1 · 1%
- which were the singers1 · 1%
- and singers1 · 1%
- singers1 · 1%
- also the singers1 · 1%
- and all the singing men1 · 1%
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.