Melody
מִזְמוֹרStrong’s H4210mizmor (miz-mor)
Appears in 57 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mizmor is the Hebrew word usually translated “psalm”. It appears in 57 verses of the Old Testament.
“Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.”
Meaning
- Melody, psalm
How it's translated
- a psalm 57
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 57
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 4:1Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
- Psalms 5:1Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
- Psalms 6:1O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
- Psalms 8:1O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
- Psalms 9:1I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
- Psalms 12:1Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Hebrew dictionary
מִזְמוֹר mizmor · melody
melody, psalm
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.