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Lexicon :: Strong's H7891 - šîr

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שִׁיר
Transliteration
šîr
Pronunciation
sheer
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root [identical with שׁוּר (H7788) through the idea of strolling minstrelsy]
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2378

Strong’s Definitions

שִׁיר shîyr, sheer; or (the original form) שׁוּר shûwr; (1 Samuel 18:6), a primitive root (rather identical with H7788 through the idea of strolling minstrelsy); to sing:—behold (by mistake for H7789), sing(-er, -ing man, -ing woman).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 87x

The KJV translates Strong's H7891 in the following manner: sing (41x), singer (37x), singing men (4x), singing women (4x), behold (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 87x
The KJV translates Strong's H7891 in the following manner: sing (41x), singer (37x), singing men (4x), singing women (4x), behold (1x).

  1. to sing

    1. (Qal)

      1. to sing

      2. singer, songstresses (participle)

    2. (Polel)

      1. to sing

      2. singer, songstress (participle)

    3. (Hophal) to be sung

      In Job 36:24, this word is translated "Behold"; in modern versions, it is translated "Sing". The old translations considered the Hebrew word to be from a different root than H7788 hence the difference in the translations. (Cf. Gill on Job 36:24)
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שִׁיר shîyr, sheer; or (the original form) שׁוּר shûwr; (1 Samuel 18:6), a primitive root (rather identical with H7788 through the idea of strolling minstrelsy); to sing:—behold (by mistake for H7789), sing(-er, -ing man, -ing woman).
STRONGS H7891: Abbreviations
† [שִׁיר]86 verb sing (denominative according to NöZMG xxxvii (1883), 537 Gerb172, but, if so, an old one); —
Qal49 Perfect 3rd person masculine singular שָׁר Psalm 7:1; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יָשִׁיר Exodus 15:1; Numbers 21:17 (read יָשִׁר Job 33:27 for יָשִׁר, √II. שׁוּר, so SS Bu Gerber; in this sense also Ew De Di RV and all modern); 3rd person feminine singular וַתָּ֫שַׁר Judges 5:1, etc.; Imperative masculine plural שִׁירוּ Exodus 15:21 +; Infinitive construct לָשׁוּר 1 Samuel 18:6 Kt (< Qr לָשִׁיר, so Bu; Greek Version of the LXXB omitted, compare Dr KitKau HPS Now); Participle שָׁר Proverbs 25:20; plural שָׁרִים 2 Samuel 19:36 +; feminine שָׁרוֺת 2 Samuel 19:36 + 2 times + Amos 8:3 (read for שִׁירוֺת; see שִׁירָה); — sing, with accusative שִׁיר Isaiah 42:10; Psalm 33:3 + 5 times; שִׁירָה Exodus 15:1; Numbers 21:17 (E) Isaiah 5:1; בשׁרים שׁ׳ Proverbs 25:20; מִשִּׁיר שִׁיּוֺן Psalm 137:3; שׁגיון Psalm 7:1 (Greek Version of the LXX מזמור), תהלה Psalm 106:12; with accusative of theme Psalm 59:17; Psalm 89:2; absolute Judges 5:1; 1 Samuel 18:6; with לְ Psalm 13:6; Psalm 96:1; Psalm 96:2 = 1 Chronicles 16:23; Exodus 15:1, 21; Jeremiah 20:13; || זמּר Psalm 68:5; Psalm 68:33; Psalm 101:1; Psalm 104:33; Psalm 105:2 = 1 Chronicles 16:9; Judges 5:3; + זמּר absolute Psalm 57:8 = Psalm 108:2 with accusative theme Psalm 21:14; with לְ person Psalm 27:6; of nature Psalm 65:14 (after החְרוֺעֵעַ); על אנשׁים Job 33:27 (see above); participle שָׁרִים singers 2 Samuel 19:36; 1 Kings 10:12 + 6 times (Ezekiel 40:44 read שְׁתַּיִם Greek Version of the LXX Hi Co modern); שָׁרוֺת songstresses 2 Samuel 19:36; 2 Chronicles 35:25; Ecclesiastes 2:8 + Amos 8:3 (see above). — Psalm 138:5 read וְיָשִׂיחוּ.
Po`l.36 Perfect 3rd person masculine plural שֹׁרְרוּ Job 36:24; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יְשׁוֺרֵר Zephaniah 2:14; Participle מְשׁוֺרֵר 1 Chronicles 6:18; 2 Chronicles 29:28; plural מְשֹׁרְרִים Ezra 2:65 +, etc.; — sing: birds Zephaniah 2:14; men Job 36:24; elsewhere participle of Levitical singers 1 Chronicles 6:18; 1 Chronicles 9:33 + 31 times, + feminine plural Ezra 2:65 songstresses = Nehemiah 7:67.
† Hoph. be sung: Imperfect יוּשַׁר הַשִׁיר הַזֶּה Isaiah 26:1
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

15:1; 15:1; 15:1; 15:21; 15:21

Numbers

21:17; 21:17

Judges

5:1; 5:1; 5:3

1 Samuel

18:6; 18:6

2 Samuel

19:36; 19:36; 19:36; 19:36

1 Kings

10:12

1 Chronicles

6:18; 6:18; 9:33; 16:9; 16:23

2 Chronicles

29:28; 35:25

Ezra

2:65; 2:65

Nehemiah

7:67

Job

33:27; 33:27; 36:24; 36:24

Psalms

7:1; 7:1; 13:6; 27:6; 33:3; 57:8; 59:17; 68:5; 68:33; 89:2; 96:1; 96:2; 101:1; 104:33; 105:2; 106:12; 108:2; 137:3; 138:5

Proverbs

25:20; 25:20

Ecclesiastes

2:8

Isaiah

5:1; 26:1; 42:10

Jeremiah

20:13

Ezekiel

40:44

Amos

8:3; 8:3

Zephaniah

2:14; 2:14

H7891

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Strong's Number H7891 matches the Hebrew שִׁיר (šîr),
which occurs 87 times in 79 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Exo 15:1–Psa 33:3)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:1 - Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to God, and spoke, saying, Let us sing to the Lord, for he is very greatly glorified: horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:21 - And Mariam led them, saying, Let us sing to the Lord, for he has been very greatly glorified: the horse and rider has he cast into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:17 - Then Israel sang this song at the well, Begin to sing [fn]of the well;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:1 - And Debbora and Barac son of Abineem sang in that day, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:3 - Hear, ye kings, and hearken, rulers: I will sing, it is I who will sing to the Lord, it is I, I will sing a psalm to the Lord the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:6 - And there came out women in dances to meet David out of all the cities of Israel, with timbrels, and with rejoicing, and with cymbals.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:35 - (LXX 19:36) I am this day eighty years old: can I then distinguish between good and evil? Can thy servant taste any longer what I eat or drink? can I any longer hear the voice of singing men or singing women? and wherefore shall thy servant any longer be a burden to my lord the king?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:12 - And the king made the hewn timber into buttresses of the house of the Lord and the king's house, and lyres and harps for singers: such hewn timber had not come upon the earth, nor have been seen anywhere until this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:33 - (LXX 6:18) And these were the men that stood, and their sons, of the sons of Caath: Æman the psalm singer, son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:33 - And these were the singers, heads of families of the Levites, to whom were established daily courses, for they were employed in the services day and night.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:16 - And David said to the chiefs of the Levites, Set your brethren the singers with musical instruments, lutes, harps, and cymbals, to sound aloud with a voice of joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:19 - And the singers, Æman, Asaph, and Æthan, with brazen cymbals to make a sound to be heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:27 - And David was girt with a fine linen robe, and all the Levites who were bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the singers, and Chonenias the master of the band of singers; also upon David there was a robe of fine linen.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:9 - Sing songs to him, and sing hymns to him, relate to all people his wonderful deeds, which the Lord has wrought.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:23 - Sing ye to the Lord, all the earth; proclaim his salvation from day to day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12 - that all the singing Levites assigned to the sons of Asaph, to Æman, to Idithun, and to his sons, and to his brethren, of them that were clothed in linen garments, with cymbals and lutes and harps, were standing before the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests, blowing trumpets.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:13 - And there was one voice in the trumpeting and in the psalm-singing, and in the loud utterance with one voice to give thanks and praise the Lord; and when they raised their voice together with trumpets and cymbals, and instruments of music, and said, Give thanks to the Lord, for it is good, for his mercy endures for ever:—then the house was filled with the cloud of the glory of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:11 - And the king made of the pine timber steps to the house of the Lord, and to the king's house, and harps and lutes for the singers: and such were not seen before in the land of Juda.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:21 - And he took counsel with the people, and set appointed men to sing psalms and praises, to give thanks, and sing the holy songs of praise in going forth before the host: and they said, Give thanks to the Lord, for his mercy endures for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:13 - And she looked, and, behold, the king stood in his place, and the princes and trumpets were at the entrance, and the princes were round the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded the trumpets, and there were the singers singing with instruments, and singing hymns of praise. And Gotholia rent her robe, and cried, Ye surely are plotting against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:28 - And all the congregation worshipped, and the psalm-singers were singing, and the trumpets sounding, until the whole-burnt-sacrifice had been completely offered.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:15 - And the sons of Asaph the psalm-singers were at their post according to the commands of David, and Asaph, and Æman, and Idithom, the prophets of the king: also the chiefs and the porters of the several gates;—it was not for them to stir from the service of the holy things, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - And Jeremias mourned over Josias, and all the chief men and chief women uttered a lamentation over Josias until this day: and they made it an ordinance for Israel, and, behold, it is written in the lamentations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:41 - The sons of Asaph, singers, a hundred and twenty-eight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:65

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:65 - besides their men-servants and maid-servants, and these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven: and among these were two hundred singing men and singing women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:70

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:70 - So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nathinim, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:7 - And some of the children of Israel went up, and some of the priests, and of the Levites, and the singers, and the door-keepers, and the Nathinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Arthasastha the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:24 - And of the singers; Elisab: and of the porters; Solmen, and Telmen, and Oduth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:1 - And it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:44 - The singers; the children of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:67

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:67 - besides their men-servants and their maid-servants: these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty seven: and the singing-men and singing-women, two hundred and forty-five.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:73

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:73 - And the priests, and Levites, and porters, and singers, and some of the people, and the Nathinim, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28 - (LXX 10:29) And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nathinim, and every one who drew off from the nations of the land to the law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, every one who had knowledge and understanding,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - (LXX 10:40) For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring into the treasuries the first-fruits of the corn, and wine, and oil; and there are the holy vessels, and the priests, and the ministers, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:22 - And the overseer of the Levites was the son of Bani, son of Ozi, son of Asabia, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph the singers some were over the house of God,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:23 - For so was the king's commandment concerning them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:28 - And the sons of the singers were assembled both from the neighbourhood round about to Jerusalem, and from the villages,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:29 - and from the country: for the singers built themselves villages by Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:42

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:42 - And the singers were heard, and were numbered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:45 - And they kept the charges of their God, and the charges of the purification, and ordered the singers and the porters, according to the commandments of David and his son Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:46 - For in the days of David Asaph was originally first of the singers, and they sang hymns and praise to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:47 - And all Israel in the days of Zorobabel, and in the days of Neemias, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, a daily rate: and consecrated them to the Levites: and the Levites consecrated them to the sons of Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5 - and he made himself a great treasury, and there they were formerly in the habit of bestowing the offerings, and the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the oil, the ordered portion of the Levites, and singers, and porters; and the first-fruits of the priests.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:10 - And I understood that the portion of the Levites had not been given: and they had fled every one to his field, the Levites and the singers doing the work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:24 - Remember that his works are great beyond those which men have attempted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:1 - A Psalm of David, which he sang to the Lord because of the words of Chusi the [fn]Benjamite. (LXX 7:2) O Lord my God, in thee have I trusted: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:13 - (LXX 20:14) Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy strength: we will sing and praise thy mighty acts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:6 - (LXX 26:6) And now, behold, he has lifted up mine head over mine enemies: I went round and offered in his tabernacle the sacrifice of [fn]joy; I will sing, [fn]even sing psalms to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:3 - (LXX 32:3) Sing to him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.

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