Genesis 31:27
Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
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Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
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שִׁיר
shîyr · sheer
12 times translated as this KJV form58 total Strong's occurrences
a song; abstractly, singing
Strong's KJV usage: musical(-ick), × sing(-er, -ing), song.
Strong's first: Genesis 31:27Strong's last: Amos 8:10
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zâmîyr · zaw-meer'
3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a song to be accompanied with instrumental music
Strong's KJV usage: psalm(-ist), singing, song.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 35:10Strong's last: Isaiah 24:16
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ōidḗ · o-day'
2 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a chant or "ode" (the general term for any words sung; while G5215 denotes especially a religious metrical composition, and G5568 still more specially, a Hebrew cantillation)
Strong's KJV usage: :--song.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ephesians 5:19Strong's last: Colossians 3:16
Open full G5603 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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 38:20Strong's last: Isaiah 38:20
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rôn · rone
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a shout (of deliverance)
Strong's KJV usage: song.
Strong's first: Psalms 32:7Strong's last: Psalms 32:7
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rinnâh · rin-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form33 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a creaking (or shrill sound), i.e. shout (of joy or grief)
Strong's KJV usage: cry, gladness, joy, proclamation, rejoicing, shouting, sing(-ing), triumph.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 35:10Strong's last: Isaiah 35:10
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H7892
Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
H7892
And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.
H7892
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
H7892
For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
H2158
But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
H7438
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
H2158
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
H7892
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
H7892
As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
H7892
The song of songs, which is Solomon's.
H7892
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
H2158
From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
H7440
And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
H5058
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.
H7892
And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
H7892
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
H7892
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
H7892
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
G5603
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
G5603
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
English meaning and historical usage.
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song
SONG, noun
1. In general, that which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of the human voice or that of a bird.
2. A little poem to be sung, or uttered with musical modulations; a ballad. The songs of a country are characteristic of its manners. Every country has its love songs, its war songs, and its patriotic songs.
3. A hymn; a sacred poem or hymn to be sung either in joy or thanksgiving, as that sung by Moses and the Israelites after escaping the dangers of the Arabian gulf and of Pharaoh; or of lamentation, as that of David over the death of Saul and Jonathan. Songs of joy are represented as constituting a part of heavenly felicity.
4. A lay; a strain; a poem. The bard that first adorn'd our native tongue, tun'd to his British lyre this ancient song
5. Poetry; poesy; verse. This subject for heroic song pleas'd me.
6. Notes of birds. [See Def. 1.]
7. A mere trifle. The soldier's pay is a song Old song a trifle. I do not intend to be thus put off with an old song
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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