TBESH · H7891
שִׁיר · shir · to sing
1) to sing 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to sing 1a2) singer, songstresses (participle) 1b) (Polel) 1b1) to sing 1b2) singer, songstress (participle) 1c) (Hophal) to be sung
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shir H7891
שִׁיר (shir) means “to sing” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
שִׁיר Hebrew · H7891 87 tagged occurrences in 79 verses
Pronunciation guide: sheer Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
or (the original form) שׁוּר; (1 Samuel 18:6), a primitive root (rather identical with H7788 (שׁוּר) through the idea of strolling minstrelsy); to sing
KJV glosses: behold (by mistake for H7789 (שׁוּר)), sing(-er, -ing man, -ing woman).
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How translators render H7891
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| sing | 15 |
| i will sing | 9 |
| singers | 7 |
| the singers | 6 |
| for the singers | 5 |
| and female singers | 2 |
| and singers | 2 |
| sang | 2 |
| will sing | 2 |
| along with the singers | 1 |
| and sang | 1 |
| and the singers stay | 1 |
| and women | 1 |
| as singers | 1 |
| as well as the singers | 1 |
| can we sing | 1 |
| female singers | 1 |
| have praised in song | 1 |
| he sang | 1 |
| is one who sings | 1 |
| male | 1 |
| male and | 1 |
| male and female singers | 1 |
| musicians | 1 |
| of singing men | 1 |
| sang this song | 1 |
| song | 1 |
| the male | 1 |
| the musicians | 1 |
| the singer | 1 |
| the singers were also | 1 |
| their | 1 |
| then the choirs | 1 |
| they | 1 |
| they sing | 1 |
| they will sing | 1 |
| we will sing | 1 |
| were singing | 1 |
| while the singers | 1 |
| who were the singers | 1 |
| who would sing | 1 |
| will be sung | 1 |
| will sound | 1 |
| with singing | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| sing | 12 |
| and the singers | 10 |
| i will sing | 10 |
| the singers | 8 |
| of the singers | 5 |
| and singing women | 3 |
| for singers | 2 |
| o sing | 2 |
| sang | 2 |
| singing men | 2 |
| then sang | 2 |
| a singer | 1 |
| also the singers | 1 |
| and all the singing men | 1 |
| and both the singers | 1 |
| and singers | 1 |
| and the singing women | 1 |
| and women singers | 1 |
| as well the singers | 1 |
| be sung | 1 |
| behold | 1 |
| but i will sing | 1 |
| for the singers | 1 |
| he that singeth | 1 |
| how shall we sing | 1 |
| me men singers | 1 |
| now will i sing | 1 |
| of singing men | 1 |
| shall sing | 1 |
| should be for the singers | 1 |
| singers | 1 |
| singing | 1 |
| so the singers | 1 |
| them sing | 1 |
| they also sing | 1 |
| they sang | 1 |
| will we sing | 1 |
| with the singers | 1 |
| yea they shall sing | 1 |
Verses containing H7891
Page 1 of 2. 79 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Exodus 15:1
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.
Read word by word - Exodus 15:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Miriam sang back to them: “Sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; the horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.”
Read word by word - Numbers 21:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, all of you sing to it!
Read word by word - Judges 5:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:
Read word by word - Judges 5:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Listen, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 18:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 19:35
· BSB · 2 occurrences
I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.36
- 1 Kings 10:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The king made the almug wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood been brought in, nor has such been seen again to this day.)
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 6:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
These are the men who served, together with their sons. From the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 6.18
- 1 Chronicles 9:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Those who were musicians, the heads of Levite families, stayed in the temple chambers and were exempt from other duties because they were on duty day and night.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 15:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
David also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 15:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 15:27
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Now David was dressed in a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, as well as the singers and Chenaniah, the director of music for the singers. David also wore a linen ephod.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 16:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 16:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Sing to the LORD, all the earth. Proclaim His salvation day after day.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 5:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
all the Levitical singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 5:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 9:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The king made the algum wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had anything like them been seen in the land of Judah.)
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 20:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jehoshaphat consulted with the people and appointed those who would sing to the LORD and praise the splendor of His holiness. As they went out before the army, they were singing: “Give thanks to the LORD, for His loving devotion endures forever.”
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 23:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And she looked and saw the king standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets, while the singers with musical instruments were leading the praises. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason, treason!”
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 29:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The whole assembly was worshiping, the singers were singing, and the trumpeters were playing. All this continued until the burnt offering was completed.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 35:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer. And the gatekeepers at each gate did not need to leave their posts, because their fellow Levites made preparations for them.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 35:25
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the male and female singers recite laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.
Read word by word - Ezra 2:41
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 128.
Read word by word - Ezra 2:65
· BSB · 2 occurrences
in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 200 male and female singers.
Read word by word - Ezra 2:70
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, along with some of the people, settled in their own towns; and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.
Read word by word - Ezra 7:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, he went up to Jerusalem with some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants.
Read word by word - Ezra 10:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
From the singers: Eliashib. From the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 7:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the wall had been rebuilt and I had set the doors in place, the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites were appointed.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 7:44
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 148.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 7:67
· BSB · 2 occurrences
in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 245 male and female singers.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 7:73
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with some of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns. And by the seventh month the Israelites had settled in their towns.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 7.72
- Nehemiah 10:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the people of the land to obey the Law of God—along with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.29
- Nehemiah 10:39
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.40
- Nehemiah 11:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica. He was one of Asaph’s descendants, who were the singers in charge of the service of the house of God.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 11:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For there was a command from the king concerning the singers, an ordinance regulating their daily activities.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 12:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The singers were also assembled from the region around Jerusalem, from the villages of the Netophathites,
Read word by word - Nehemiah 12:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
from Beth-gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for they had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 12:42
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and also Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. Then the choirs sang out under the direction of Jezrahiah.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 12:45
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, along with the singers and gatekeepers, as David and his son Solomon had prescribed.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 12:46
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there were directors for the singers and for the songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 12:47
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So in the days of Zerubbabel and Nehemiah, all Israel contributed the daily portions for the singers and gatekeepers. They also set aside daily portions for the Levites, and the Levites set aside daily portions for the descendants of Aaron.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 13:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 13:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I also learned that because the portions for the Levites had not been given to them, all the Levites and singers responsible for performing the service had gone back to their own fields.
Read word by word - Job 36:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Remember to magnify His work, which men have praised in song.
Read word by word - Psalms 7:0
· KJV · 1 occurrence
The source numbers this heading or verse separately; read it in the interlinear.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 7.1
- Psalms 13:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will sing to the LORD, for He has been good to me.
Read word by word - Psalms 21:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Be exalted, O LORD, in Your strength; we will sing and praise Your power.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.14
- Psalms 27:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then my head will be held high above my enemies around me. At His tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD.
Read word by word - Psalms 33:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Sing to Him a new song; play skillfully with a shout of joy.
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