Melody
זִמְרָהStrong’s H2172zimrah (zim-rah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zimrah is the Hebrew word usually translated “music” and “music of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.”
Meaning
- Music, melody, song
How it's translated
- music 3
- and music of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 1
- Amos 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 98:5Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
- Isaiah 51:3For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
- Amos 5:23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
Hebrew dictionary
זִמְרָה zimrah · melody
music, melody, song
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “melody” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MEL'ODY, noun
[Gr. a limb, or a song, an ode; Latin melos.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.