Genesis 49:5
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
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Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
Read in context →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.
Read in context →10 occurrences in 8 verses.
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kᵉlîy · kel-ee'
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.
Strong's first: Genesis 49:5Strong's last: Zechariah 11:15
Open full H3627 profile →hóplon · hop'-lon
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 →môwrag · mo-rag'
a threshing sledge
Strong's KJV usage: threshing instrument.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 24:22Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 21:23
Open full H4173 profile →nâgan · naw-gan'
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).
Strong's first: Psalms 68:25Strong's last: Isaiah 38:20
Open full H5059 profile →dachăvâh · dakh-av-aw'
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 →chărûwts · khaw-roots'
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.
Strong's first: Amos 1:3Strong's last: Amos 1:3
Open full H2742 profile →mên · mane
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]).
Strong's first: Psalms 150:4Strong's last: Psalms 150:4
Open full H4482 profile →nᵉgîynâh · neg-ee-naw'
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 →shiddâh · shid-dah'
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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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:
The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.
It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.
And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.
And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
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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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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