מִזְמוֹר
psalm
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H4210 appears — 56 distinct verses 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.
Psalms 56 verses
- Psalms 3:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
- Psalms 4:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
- Psalms 5:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.
- Psalms 6:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your anger, Neither discipline me in your wrath.
- Psalms 8:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, Who has set your glory above the heavens!
- Psalms 9:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.
- Psalms 12:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
- Psalms 13:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Psalms 15:1 מִזְמ֗וֹר n c ms Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?
- Psalms 19:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
- Psalms 20:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,
- Psalms 21:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!
- Psalms 22:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
- Psalms 23:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
- Psalms 24:1 מִ֫זְמ֥וֹר n c ms The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; The world, and those who dwell therein.
- Psalms 29:1 מִזְמ֗וֹר n c ms Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, Ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
- Psalms 30:1 מִזְמ֡וֹר n c ms I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, And have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
- Psalms 31:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed: Deliver me in your righteousness.
- Psalms 38:1 מִזְמ֖וֹר n c ms Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your wrath, Neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
- Psalms 39:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."
- Psalms 40:1 מִזְמֽוֹר n c ms I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
- Psalms 41:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms Blessed is he who considers the poor: Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
- Psalms 47:1 מִזְמֽוֹר n c ms Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
- Psalms 48:1 מִ֝זְמוֹר n c ms Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
- Psalms 49:1 מִזְמֽוֹר n c ms Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,
- Psalms 50:1 מִזְמ֗וֹר n c ms The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, And calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
- Psalms 62:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.
- Psalms 63:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you, My flesh longs for you, In a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
- Psalms 64:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
- Psalms 65:1 מִזְמ֗וֹר n c ms Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. To you shall vows be performed.
- Psalms 66:1 מִזְמ֑וֹר n c ms Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!
- Psalms 67:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms May God be merciful to us, bless us, And cause his face to shine on us. Selah.
- Psalms 68:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.
- Psalms 73:1 מִזְמ֗וֹר n c ms Surely God is good to Israel, To those who are pure in heart.
- Psalms 75:1 מִזְמ֖וֹר n c ms We give thanks to you, God, We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.
- Psalms 76:1 מִזְמ֖וֹר n c ms In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
- Psalms 77:1 מִזְמֽוֹר n c ms My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, And for him to listen to me.
- Psalms 79:1 מִזְמ֗וֹר n c ms God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
- Psalms 80:1 מִזְמֽוֹר n c ms Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock, You who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.
- Psalms 82:1 מִזְמ֗וֹר n c ms God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.
- Psalms 83:1 מִזְמ֣וֹר n c ms God, don't keep silent. Don't keep silent, And don't be still, God.
- Psalms 84:1 מִזְמֽוֹר n c ms How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Hosts!
- Psalms 85:1 מִזְמֽוֹר n c ms Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
- Psalms 87:1 מִזְמ֣וֹר n c ms His foundation is in the holy mountains.
- Psalms 88:1 מִזְמ֗וֹר n c ms Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
- Psalms 92:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, To sing praises to your name, Most High;
- Psalms 98:1 מִזְמ֡וֹר n c ms Sing to Yahweh a new song, For he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.
- Psalms 100:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!
- Psalms 101:1 מִ֫זְמ֥וֹר n c ms I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
- Psalms 108:1 מִזְמ֣וֹר n c ms My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul.
- Psalms 109:1 מִזְמ֑וֹר n c ms God of my praise, don't remain silent,
- Psalms 110:1 מִ֫זְמ֥וֹר n c ms Yahweh says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet."
- Psalms 139:1 מִזְמ֑וֹר n c ms Yahweh, you have searched me, And you know me.
- Psalms 140:1 מִזְמ֥וֹר n c ms Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man;
- Psalms 141:1 מִזְמ֗וֹר n c ms Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
- Psalms 143:1 מִזְמ֗וֹר n c ms Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
מזמור — transliterated mizmôwr — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “psalm.” Its uses cluster heavily in Psalms (100% of all occurrences). With 56 verses in 1 book, it is a moderately common word in the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Psalms 3:1, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside זמר, זמיר and זמר. See the sense tree, 56-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4210 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 →
- 56
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 56 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #678
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 678 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 56 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 56 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 56 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 56 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Psalm 53×, Or psalm 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Psalm 57×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Psalm 16×, Psalm of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4210 across 57 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4210 across 57 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4210 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- melody, psalm
Word origin
n.[m.] melody (techn. design. of psalms; cf. HupPsalm. Einl. § 7, 2 De4 on ψ 3, BaePsalmen, xiii; مَزَامِيرٌ, ܡܰܙܡܘܽܖ̈ܶܐ, መዝሙር: loan-wds., all = Psalm(s); on מ׳, in relation to תהלה cf. LgOr ii. 22f.), always in this form; in 57 ψ-titles:—מ׳ alone ψ 98:1, מ׳ שׁיר ליום הַשַּׁבָּת 92:1, מ׳ לְתוֹדָה 100:1; usually with pers. name or title; מ׳ לְדָוִד ψ 3:1; 15:1; 23:1; 29:1; 63:1; 141:1; 143:1, שׁיר מ׳ לדוד 108:1, מ׳ לדוד לְהַזְכִּיר 38:1, מ׳ שִׁיר־חֲנֻכַּת הבית לדוד 30:1, לדוד מ׳ 24:1; 101:1; 110:1, לַמְֿנַצֵּחַ מ׳ לדוד 13:1; 19:1; 20:1; 21:1; 31:1; 41:1; 51:1; 64:1; 140:1; לַמְֿנַצֵּחַ … מ׳ לדוד 4:1; 5:1; 6:1; 8:1; 9:1; 12:1; 22:1; 39:1; 62:1, לַמְֿנַצֵּחַ מ׳ לדוד שׁיר 65:1, למנצח לדוד מ׳ 40:1; 109:1; 139:1, למנצח לדוד מ׳ שׁיר 68:1; also simply לַמְֿנַצֵּחַ מ׳ שׁיר ψ 67:1, לַמְֿנַצֵּחַ שׁיר מ׳ 66:1; but also שׁיר מ׳ לבני־קרח ψ 48:1, לִבְנֵי־קֹרַח מ׳ שׁיר 87:1, שׁיר מ׳ לבני קרח לַמְֿנַצֵּחַ … מַשְׂכִּיל לְהֵימָן הָאֶזְרָחִי 88:1, לַמְֿנַצֵּחַ לבני־קרח מ׳ 47:1; 49:1; 85:1, למנצח … לבני־קרח מ׳ 84:1; further מ׳ לְאָסָף ψ 50:1; 73:1; 79:1; 82:1, שׁיר מ׳ לאסף 83:1, לַמְֿנַצֵּחַ … מ׳ לאסף שׁיר 75:1; 76:1, לַמְֿנַצֵּחַ … לאסף מ׳ 77:1; 80:1. [Summary:—מ׳ in 34 ψψ with לַמְֿנַצֵּחַ, of wh. 23 have לדוד also, 5 לבני קרח also, 4 לאסף, and 2 no n.pr.; in addit., in 13 ψψ with לדוד, 2 with לבני קרח, 5 with לאסף; in only 3 without either n.pr. or title; מ׳ is preceded by שׁיר 5 times, and foll. by שִׁיר 8 times]
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זמר (zâmar) (H2167) — to sing.
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.
מִזְמוֹר
- song, psalm. Lev. R. s. 10 המ׳ הזה אדם וכ׳ this psalm (Ps. XCII) was composed by Adam. Midr. Till. to Ps. IV; a. fr.—Pl. מִזְמוֹרוֹת, מִזְמוֹרִים, מִזְמוֹרִין. Y. Ber. IV, 7ᵈ bot.; Y. Taan. II, 65ᶜ top כנגד י"ח מ׳ וכ׳ corresponding to the eighteen psalms &c. Y. Sabb. XVI, 15ᶜ; Treat. Sof’rim ch. XVI, 11 מאה … מ׳ one hundred and forty seven psalms (Ps. I and II, IX and X, XLII and XLIII forming severally one psalm). Lev. R. s. 4 מאה ושנים מ׳ אמר וכ׳ (not ועשרים) one hundred and two psalms had David composed (up to Ps. CIV, counting Ps. I and II, Ps. XLII and XLIII severally one psalm, v. Ber. 9ᵇ bot., a. Var. in Ms. M. in Rabb. D. S. a. l., a. Yalk. Ps. 862); a. fr.
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H4210 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִזְמ֥וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 3:1 | 24 |
| מִזְמ֗וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 15:1 | 10 |
| מִזְמֽוֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 40:1 | 7 |
| מִ֫זְמ֥וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 24:1 | 3 |
| מִזְמ֑וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 66:1 | 3 |
| מִזְמ֖וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 38:1 | 3 |
| מִזְמ֣וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 83:1 | 3 |
| מִזְמ֡וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 30:1 | 2 |
| מִ֝זְמוֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 48:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4210, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- זמיר zâmîyr H2158 song
- זמר zâmar H2168 to prune
- זמר zemer H2169 wild goat
- זמר zᵉmâr H2170 music
- זמרה zimrâh H2172 song
- זמרת zimrâth H2176 song of praise
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 56 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 56 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
