Genesis 49:5
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
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Instruments
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Romans 6:13
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
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32 verses
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1 Kings
11 verses
1 Chronicles
108 verses
2 Chronicles
99 verses
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11 verses
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22 verses
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22 verses
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21 verses
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כְּלִי
kᵉlîy · kel-ee'
37 times translated as this KJV form306 total Strong's occurrences
something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
Strong's KJV usage: armour(-bearer), artillery, bag, carriage, furnish, furniture, instrument, jewel, that is made of, × one from another, that which pertaineth, pot, psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, whatsoever.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 49:5Strong's last: Zechariah 11:15
Open full H3627 profile →ὅπλον
hóplon · hop'-lon
2 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
an implement or utensil or tool (literally or figuratively, especially, offensive for war)
Strong's KJV usage: :--armour, instrument, weapon.
Strong's first: Romans 6:13Strong's last: Romans 6:13
Open full G3696 profile →מוֹרַג
môwrag · mo-rag'
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a threshing sledge
Strong's KJV usage: threshing instrument.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 24:22Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 21:23
Open full H4173 profile →נָגַן
nâgan · naw-gan'
2 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to thrum, i.e. beat a tune with the fingers; expectation. to play on a stringed instrument; hence (generally), to make music
Strong's KJV usage: player on instruments, sing to the stringed instruments, melody, ministrel, play(-er, -ing).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 68:25Strong's last: Isaiah 38:20
Open full H5059 profile →דַּחֲוָה
dachăvâh · dakh-av-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
probably a musical instrument (as being struck)
Strong's KJV usage: instrument of music.
Strong's first: Daniel 6:18Strong's last: Daniel 6:18
Open full H1761 profile →חֲרוּץ
chărûwts · khaw-roots'
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
properly, incised or (active) incisive; hence (as noun masculine or feminine) a trench (as dug), gold (as mined), a threshing-sledge (having sharp teeth); (figuratively) determination; also eager
Strong's KJV usage: decision, diligent, (fine) gold, pointed things, sharp, threshing instrument, wall.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Amos 1:3Strong's last: Amos 1:3
Open full H2742 profile →מֵן
mên · mane
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a part; hence, a musical chord (as parted into strings)
Strong's KJV usage: in [the same] (Psalm 68:23), stringed instrument (Psalm 150:4), whereby (Psalm 45:8 [defective plural]).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 150:4Strong's last: Psalms 150:4
Open full H4482 profile →נְגִינָה
nᵉgîynâh · neg-ee-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
properly, instrumental music; by implication, a stringed instrument; by extension, a poem set to music; specifically, an epigram
Strong's KJV usage: stringed instrument, musick, Neginoth (plural), song.
Strong's first: Habakkuk 3:19Strong's last: Habakkuk 3:19
Open full H5058 profile →שִׁדָּה
shiddâh · shid-dah'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a wife (as mistress of the house)
Strong's KJV usage: × all sorts, musical instrument.
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 2:8Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 2:8
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H3627
Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
H3627
Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.
H3627
And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.
H3627
And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
H3627
And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.
H4173
And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
H3627
Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
H3627
He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:
H3627
He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:
H3627
He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:
English meaning and historical usage.
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instrument
IN'STRUMENT, noun [Latin instrumentum, from instruo, to prepare; that which is prepared.]
1. A tool; that by which work is performed or any thing is effected; as a knife, a hammer, a saw, a plow, etc. Swords, muskets and cannon are instruments of destruction. A telescope is an astronomical instrument
2. That which is subservient to the execution of a plan or purpose, or to the production of any effect; means used or contributing to an effect; applicable to persons or things. Bad men are often instruments of ruin to others. The distribution of the Scriptures may be the instrument of a vastly extensive reformation in morals and religion.
3. An artificial machine or body constructed for yielding harmonious sounds; as an organ, a harpsichord, a violin, or flute, etc., which are called musical instruments, or instruments of music.
4. In law, a writing containing the terms of a contract, as a deed of conveyance, a grant, a patent, an indenture, etc.; in general, a writing by which some fact is recorded for evidence, or some right conveyed.
5. A person who acts for another, or is employed by another for a special purpose, and if the purpose is dishonorable, the term implies degradation or meanness.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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