Song
שִׁירStrong’s H7892shir
Appears in 87 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shir is the Hebrew word usually translated “song”, “song of” and “songs your”. It appears in 87 verses of the Old Testament.
“Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?”
Meaning
- Songlyric song · religious song · song of Levitical choirs
- Songsong, ode
How it's translated
- a song 23
- song of 22
- the song 11
- song 10
- with song 3
- songs your 3
- and with songs 2
- song his 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 42
- 1 Chronicles 7
- 2 Chronicles 7
- Isaiah 7
- Deuteronomy 5
- Amos 4
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 15:1Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
- Numbers 21:17Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
- Deuteronomy 31:19Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 31:21And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
- Deuteronomy 31:22Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 31:30And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
All 87 verses, by book
- Genesis 1
- 31:27
- Exodus 1
- 15:1
- Numbers 1
- 21:17
- Judges 1
- 5:12
- 2 Samuel 1
- 22:1
- 1 Kings 1
- 4:32
- Psalms 42
- 18:128:730:133:340:342:845:146:148:165:166:167:168:169:3075:176:183:187:188:192:196:198:1108:1120:1121:1122:1123:1124:1125:1126:1127:1128:1129:1130:1131:1132:1133:1134:1137:3137:4144:9149:1
- Proverbs 1
- 25:20
- Song of Solomon 1
- 1:1
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁיר shir · song
1) song 1a) lyric song 1b) religious song 1c) song of Levitical choirs Also means: shi.rah (שִׁירָה "song" H7892B)
שִׁירָה shirah · song
1) song 1a) song, ode
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.