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String

מֵןStrong’s H4482

men

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Men is the Hebrew word usually translated “stringed instrument” and “stringed instruments”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.”
Psalms 45:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. String (of harp)
  2. (BDB) portion
How it's translated
  • stringed instrument 1
  • with stringed instruments 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מֵן men · string

1) string (of harp) 2) (BDB) portion

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “string” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

STRING, noun

[G., Latin, drawing, stretching.]

  1. A small rope, line or cord, or a slender strip of lether or other like substance, used for fastening or tying things.
  2. A ribin.
  3. A thread on which any thing is filed; and hence, a line of things; as a string of shells or beads.
  4. The chord of a musical instrument, as of a harpsichord, harp or violin; as an instrument of ten strings.
All definitions and other forms of “string”
  1. A fiber, as of a plant.
  2. A nerve or tendon of an animal body.“The string of his tongue was loosed” Mark 7:35
  3. The line or cord of a bow.
  4. A series of things connected or following in succession; any concatenation of things; as a string of arguments; a string of propositions.
  5. In ship-building, the highest range of planks in a ships ceiling, or that between the gunwale and the upper edge of the upper deck ports.
  6. The tough substance that unites the two parts of the pericarp of leguminous plants; as the strings of beans.

STRING, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive strung.

  1. To furnish with strings.
  2. To put in tune a stringed instrument.
  3. To file; to put on a line; as, to string beads or pearls.
  4. To make tense; to strengthen.
  5. To deprive of strings; as, to string beans.

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.