Exodus 15:20
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
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Timbrels
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Psalms 68:25
The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
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תֹּף
tôph · tofe
4 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
a tambourine
Strong's KJV usage: tabret, timbrel.
Strong's first: Exodus 15:20Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 13:8
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tâphaph · taw-faf'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to drum, i.e. play (as) on the tambourine
Strong's KJV usage: taber, play with timbrels.
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Strong's first: Psalms 68:25Strong's last: Psalms 68:25
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H8596
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
H8596
And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
H8596
And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
H8596
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
H8608
The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
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timbrel
TIM'BREL, noun [Latin tympanum.] An instrument of music; a kind of drum, tabor or tabret, which has been in use from the highest antiquity.
And Miriam took a timbrel in her hand--and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Exodus 15:20.
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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