Music
נְגִינָהStrong’s H5058neginah (ne-gi-nah)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Neginah is the Hebrew word usually translated “stringed instruments”, “taunt song their” and “stringed instrument”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.”
Meaning
- Music, song, taunt songmusic (of stringed instrument) · song
How it's translated
- with stringed instruments 6
- taunt song their 2
- a stringed instrument 1
- and taunt songs of 1
- song my 1
- and songs my 1
- from music their 1
- with stringed instruments my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 9
- Lamentations 2
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
- Habakkuk 1
5 books 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 6:1O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
- Psalms 54:1Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
- Psalms 55:1Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
- Psalms 61:1Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
- Psalms 67:1God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
Hebrew dictionary
נְגִינָה neginah · music
1) music, song, taunt song 1a) music (of stringed instrument) 1b) song 1b1) taunting or mocking song
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “music” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MU'SIC, noun
s as z. [Latin musica.]
- Melody or harmony; any succession of sounds so modulated as to please the ear, or any combination of simultaneous sounds in accordance or harmony. music is vocal or instrumental.
- Any entertainment consisting in melody or harmony.
- The science of harmonical sounds, which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependencies and relations of sounds to each other.
- The art of combining sounds in a manner to please the ear.
All definitions
- Order; harmony in revolutions; as the music of the spheres.
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.