זַמָּר
singer
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Every verse where H2171 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 1 verse
About this entry
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At its core, זמר (zammâr) means “singer.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Ezra (100% of all occurrences). It occurs only once, in Ezra 7:24. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2171 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Most concentrated in
- Ezra 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
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- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Singers 1×
- American Standard Version: Singers 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Singers 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Singers 1×
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Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- singer
Word origin
[ זַמָּר ] n.m. singer;—pl. emph. Ezr 7:24.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זמר (zᵉmâr) (H2170) — music.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
זָמַר I
- (b. h.) to nip; to prune; to cut. Sabb. 73ᵇ זוֹמֵר וצריך וכ׳ if one trims a tree (on the Sabbath) for making use of the wood. Snh. 26ᵃ כהן וזומר (not וזמר) a priest is he, and he prunes the vine (in the sabbatical year)!; a. fr.
- to be pruned, trnsf. to be checked, unnerved, defeated. Cant. R. to II, 12 (ref. to זמיר ib.) הגיע זמנה של ערלה שתִּזָּמֵר the time for pruning the preputium (circumcision) has come (v. Ex. R. s. 19); הגיע … שיִזָּמֵרוּ the time has come for the Egyptians to be checked; Pesik. Haḥod., p. 50ᵃ; Pesik. R. s. 15.—Lev. R. s. 9, beg. Akhan is named Zimri (I Chr. II, 6, cmp. with Josh. VII, 24) שנִזְמְרוּ … על ידו because through him the Israelites were unnerved (Josh. VII, 5); a. e. e.g. 1 Chronicles 2:6
זְמַר
- Af. אַזְמֵיר same. Y. Shebi. IV, 35ᵃ חמא חד אַ׳ וכ׳ (not איז׳) saw one prune &c. (in the Sabbatical year).
זָמַר II
- to tingle, make music, sing. V. זֶמֶר.
- 1. to sing one’s praise. Cant. R. to II, 16 הוא זִמְּרַנִי … זִמַּרְתִּיו (or זְמָרַנִי, זְמַרְתִּיו) He praised me, and I &c.—Gen. R. s. 91, end (expl. מזמרת, Gen. XLIII, 11) דברים שהן מְזַמְּרִין וכ׳ things which men praise all over the world. e.g. Genesis 43:11
- 2. to review a lesson in recitative chant (v. זִמְרָה). Snh. 99ᵇ top זַמֵּר בכל יום chant every day; Tosef. Ohol. XVI, 8 זַ׳ בי תדירה זַ׳ (the Law says) review me steadily &c.; ib. Par. IV (III), 7; cmp. גְּמָרָא.
זְמַר ²
- Pa. זַמֵּיר same,
- 1. to sing. Targ. Ps. XVIII, 50; a. e.—Sot. 48ᵃ זַמְּרי גברי וכ׳ when men sing and women respond.
- 2. to sing a satire, deride. Targ. Lam. III, 14.
*זָמַר III
- , Hif. הִזְמִיר (cmp. זְמוֹרָא) to look bluish. Y’lamd. to Num. XXV, 14, quot. in Ar. (play on זִמְרִי) עד שה׳ בשרו כביצה מוזרת until his flesh (through his lewdness) had the color of a smashed (rotten) egg; (cmp. Tanḥ. Pinḥ. 2, Num. R. s. 21, beg., Snh. 82ᵇ—where our w. is omitted).
זֶמֶר I
- (זָמַר II) music, song; כלי ז׳ (or sub. כלי) musical instrument. Sot. 48ᵃ בארבעה מיני ז׳ to the music of four instruments. Y. ib. VII, 21ᶜ top לעז לז׳ Greek is adapted for song; Y. Meg. I, 71ᵇ bot.—Snh. 101ᵃ ועושה אותו כמין ז׳ and treats it (a verse of Song of Songs) like a (secular) song; Yalk. Prov. 953; a. fr.
זֶמֶר II
- (זָמַר I; cmp. זמרה, Gen. XLIII, 11) fruits, (grapes &c.), dessert. Y. Pes. X, 37ᵈ bot. (expl. אפיקומין) מיני ז׳ various dessert fruits (Bab. ib. 119ᵇ תמרים וכ׳; Tosef. ib. X, 11 אגוזים וכ׳). e.g. Genesis 43:11
זַמָּר
- (זָמַר I) musician, singer. Kel. XVI, 7 מרכוף של ז׳, v. מַרְכּוֹף. Yalk. Lam. 1001.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
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