זָמִירzâmîyr

song (Isaiah 25:5; Job 35:10; Isaiah 24:16; 2 Samuel 23:1; Psalms 95:2)

Pronunciation: zaw-meer' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2158

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 23:1 These are the last words of David: “David, the son of Jesse, speaks— David, the man who was raised up so high, David, the man anointed by the God of Jacob, David, the sweet psalmist of Israel.
  • Job 35:10 Yet they don’t ask, ‘Where is God my Creator, the one who gives songs in the night?
  • Psalms 95:2 Let us come to him with thanksgiving. Let us sing psalms of praise to him.
  • Psalms 119:54 Your decrees have been the theme of my songs wherever I have lived.
  • Isaiah 24:16 We hear songs of praise from the ends of the earth, songs that give glory to the Righteous One! But my heart is heavy with grief. Weep for me, for I wither away. Deceit still prevails, and treachery is everywhere.
  • Isaiah 25:5 or like the relentless heat of the desert. But you silence the roar of foreign nations. As the shade of a cloud cools relentless heat, so the boastful songs of ruthless people are stilled.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).