Song
זִמְרָתStrong’s H2176zimrat (zim-rat)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zimrat is the Hebrew word usually translated “strength”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.”
Meaning
- Song of praise, song, music, melody
How it's translated
- and strength 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
זִמְרָת zimrat · song
song of praise, song, music, melody
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “song” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SONG, noun
- In general, that which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of the human voice or that of a bird.
- A little poem to be sung, or uttered with musical modulations; a ballad.
- A hymn; a sacred poem or hymn to be sung either in joy or thanksgiving, as that sung by Moses and the Israelites after escaping the dangers of the Arabian gulf and of Pharaoh; or of lamentation, as that of David over the death of Saul and Jonathan.
- A lay; a strain; a poem.
All definitions
- Poetry; poesy; verse.
- Notes of birds. [See Def. 1.]
- A mere trifle.
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.