Buzzing
צִלְצָלStrong’s H6767tsiltsal (tsil-tsal)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsiltsal is the Hebrew word usually translated “cymbals of”, “locust” and “on cymbals”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.”
Meaning
- Whirring, buzzing
- Spear
- Whirring locust
- Musical instrument of percussion, cymbals (with clashing sound
How it's translated
- with cymbals of 2
- the locust 1
- and on cymbals 1
- and with a spear of 1
- whirring of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 6:5And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
- Job 41:7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
- Psalms 150:5Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
- Isaiah 18:1Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
Hebrew dictionary
צִלְצָל tsiltsal · buzzing
whirring, buzzing
צִלִצָל tsiltsal · spear
spear
צְלָצַ֑ל tselatsal · whirring
whirring locust
צֶלְצְלִים tseltselim · banging
musical instrument of percussion, cymbals (with clashing sound
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “buzzing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BUZZ'ING, participle present
tense Making a low hissing sound; whispering; tattling in secret.
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.