H7891: שִׁיר
shîyr · pronounced sheer · “to sing”
Definition
to sing
KJV translates it as: behold (by mistake for H7789 (שׁוּר)), sing(-er, -ing man, -ing woman).
Word origin: or (the original form) שׁוּר; (1 Samuel 18:6), a primitive root (rather identical with H7788 (שׁוּר) through the idea of strolling minstrelsy);
Extended definition
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to sing
1a2) singer, songstresses (participle)
1b) (Polel)
1b1) to sing
1b2) singer, songstress (participle)
1c) (Hophal) to be sung
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7891 is translated
- singers ×33
- sing ×16
- i will sing ×11
- male singers ×5
- female singers ×5
- he sang ×2
- it sang ×1
- she sang ×1
- singer ×1
- those who sang ×1
- was singing ×1
- they have sung ×1
Bible verses with H7891 (shîyr)
Shîyr appears in 78 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Exodus 15:1
Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
- Exodus 15:21
And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
- Numbers 21:17
Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
- Judges 5:1
Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
- Judges 5:3
Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the Lord; I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel.
- 1 Samuel 18:6
And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
- 2 Samuel 19:35
I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
- 1 Kings 10:12
And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
- 1 Chronicles 6:33
And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,
- 1 Chronicles 9:33
And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
- 1 Chronicles 15:16
And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
- 1 Chronicles 15:19
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;
- 1 Chronicles 15:27
And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.
- 1 Chronicles 16:9
Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.
- 1 Chronicles 16:23
Sing unto the Lord, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation.
- 2 Chronicles 5:12
Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
- 2 Chronicles 5:13
It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord;
- 2 Chronicles 9:11
And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the Lord, and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 20:21
And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the Lord, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the Lord; for his mercy endureth for ever.
- 2 Chronicles 23:13
And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
- 2 Chronicles 29:28
And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
- 2 Chronicles 35:15
And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
- 2 Chronicles 35:25
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
- Ezra 2:41
The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight.
- Ezra 2:65
Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.
All 78 references
- Ezra 2:70
- Ezra 7:7
- Ezra 10:24
- Nehemiah 7:1
- Nehemiah 7:44
- Nehemiah 7:67
- Nehemiah 7:73
- Nehemiah 10:28
- Nehemiah 10:39
- Nehemiah 11:22
- Nehemiah 11:23
- Nehemiah 12:28
- Nehemiah 12:29
- Nehemiah 12:42
- Nehemiah 12:45
- Nehemiah 12:46
- Nehemiah 12:47
- Nehemiah 13:5
- Nehemiah 13:10
- Job 36:24
- Psalms 13:6
- Psalms 21:13
- Psalms 27:6
- Psalms 33:3
- Psalms 57:7
- Psalms 59:16
- Psalms 65:13
- Psalms 68:4
- Psalms 68:25
- Psalms 68:32
- Psalms 87:7
- Psalms 89:1
- Psalms 96:1
- Psalms 96:2
- Psalms 98:1
- Psalms 101:1
- Psalms 104:33
- Psalms 105:2
- Psalms 106:12
- Psalms 108:1
- Psalms 137:3
- Psalms 137:4
- Psalms 138:5
- Psalms 144:9
- Psalms 149:1
- Proverbs 25:20
- Ecclesiastes 2:8
- Isaiah 5:1
- Isaiah 26:1
- Isaiah 42:10
- Jeremiah 20:13
- Ezekiel 40:44
- Zephaniah 2:14