שִׁירshîyr
שִׁיר: song
Pronunciation: sheer · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7892
Meanings
1. lyric song (1 Kings 5:12; Amos 8:10; Genesis 31:27)
2. religious song (Psalms 42:9; Psalms 69:31; Psalms 28:7)
3. specifically song of Levitical choirs, with musical accompaniment (1 Chronicles 6:16; 1 Chronicles 6:17; 1 Chronicles 13:8)
שִׁירָה: song, ode (Ecclesiastes 39:15; Exodus 15:1; Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 23:15; Amos 8:3)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 90 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 31:27 Why did you slip away secretly? Why did you deceive me? And why didn’t you say you wanted to leave? I would have given you a farewell feast, with singing and music, accompanied by tambourines and harps.
- Exodus 15:1 Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord: “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; he has hurled both horse and rider into the sea.
- Numbers 21:17 There the Israelites sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Yes, sing its praises!
- Deuteronomy 31:19 “So write down the words of this song, and teach it to the people of Israel. Help them learn it, so it may serve as a witness for me against them.
- Deuteronomy 31:21 And when great disasters come down on them, this song will stand as evidence against them, for it will never be forgotten by their descendants. I know the intentions of these people, even now before they have entered the land I swore to give them.”
- Deuteronomy 31:22 So that very day Moses wrote down the words of the song and taught it to the Israelites.
See every passage
- Genesis 31:27
- Exodus 15:1
- Numbers 21:17
- Deuteronomy 31:19, 31:21, 31:22, 31:30, 32:44
- Judges 5:12
- 2 Samuel 22:1
- 1 Kings 4:32
- 1 Chronicles 6:31, 6:32, 13:8, 15:16, 16:42, 25:6, 25:7
- 2 Chronicles 5:13, 7:6, 23:13, 23:18, 29:27, 29:28, 34:12
- Nehemiah 12:27, 12:36, 12:46
- Psalms 18:0, 28:7, 30:0, 33:3, 40:3, 42:8, 45:0, 46:0, 48:0, 65:0, 66:0, 67:0, 68:0, 69:30, 75:0, 76:0, 83:0, 87:0, 88:0, 92:0, 96:1, 98:1, 108:0, 120:0, 121:0, 122:0, 123:0, 124:0, 125:0, 126:0, 127:0, 128:0, 129:0, 130:0, 131:0, 132:0, 133:0, 134:0, 137:3, 137:4, 144:9, 149:1
- Proverbs 25:20
- Ecclesiastes 7:5, 12:4
- Song of Solomon 1:1
- Isaiah 5:1, 23:15, 23:16, 24:9, 26:1, 30:29, 42:10
- Ezekiel 26:13, 33:32
- Amos 5:23, 6:5, 8:3, 8:10
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).