מְצֵלֶתmᵉtsêleth

cymbals (1 Chronicles 13:8; 2 Samuel 6:5; 2 Samuel 15:19; 2 Samuel 16:5; 2 Samuel 16:42)

Pronunciation: mets-ay'-leth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4700

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 13 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Chronicles 13:8 David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, singing songs and playing all kinds of musical instruments—lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
  • 1 Chronicles 15:16 David also ordered the Levite leaders to appoint a choir of Levites who were singers and musicians to sing joyful songs to the accompaniment of harps, lyres, and cymbals.
  • 1 Chronicles 15:19 The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were chosen to sound the bronze cymbals.
  • 1 Chronicles 15:28 So all Israel brought up the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant with shouts of joy, the blowing of rams’ horns and trumpets, the crashing of cymbals, and loud playing on harps and lyres.
  • 1 Chronicles 16:5 Asaph, the leader of this group, sounded the cymbals. Second to him was Zechariah, followed by Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel. They played the harps and lyres.
  • 1 Chronicles 16:42 They used their trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments to accompany their songs of praise to God. And the sons of Jeduthun were appointed as gatekeepers.
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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).