Strong's #7891: shiyr (pronounced sheer)
or (the original form) shuwr (1 Sam. 18:6) {shoor}; a primitive root (identical with 7788 through the idea of strolling minstrelsy); to sing:--behold (by mistake for 7789), sing(-er, -ing man, - ing woman).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ּׁ / ׁ
shı̂yr / shûr
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
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root [identical with H7788 through the idea of strolling minstrelsy]
Usage:
This word is used 86 times:
Exodus 15:1: "Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song"
Exodus 15:1: "unto the LORD, and spoke, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously:"
Exodus 15:21: "And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse"
Numbers 21:17: "Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well;"
Judges 5:1: " Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,"
Judges 5:3: "O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God"
1 Samuel 18:6: "came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet"
2 Samuel 19:35: "I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be"
2 Samuel 19:35: "any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet"
1 Kings 10:12: "house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug"
1 Chronicles 6:33: "Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son"
1 Chronicles 9:33: "And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for"
1 Chronicles 15:16: "to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of music, psalteries and harps"
1 Chronicles 15:19: " So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;"
1 Chronicles 15:27: "that bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers:"
1 Chronicles 15:27: "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; show forth from day to"
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,"
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"
2 Chronicles 9:11: "palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before"
2 Chronicles 20:21: "with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness,"
2 Chronicles 23:13: "rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of music, and such as taught to sing praise."
2 Chronicles 29:28: "the congregation worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until"
2 Chronicles 35:15: " And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph,"
2 Chronicles 35:25: "for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spoke of Josiah"
2 Chronicles 35:25: "Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations"
Ezra 2:41: " The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty and eight."
Ezra 2:65: "hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women."
Ezra 2:65: "thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women."
Ezra 2:70: "and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities,"
Ezra 7:7: "of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto"
Ezra 10:24: "Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri."
Nehemiah 7:1: "and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,"
Nehemiah 7:44: " The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred forty and eight."
Nehemiah 7:67: "and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing"
Nehemiah 7:67: "and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing"
Nehemiah 7:73: "So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all"
Nehemiah 10:28: "the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people"
Nehemiah 10:39: "and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house"
Nehemiah 11:22: "of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house"
Nehemiah 11:23: "concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day."
Nehemiah 12:28: "And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from"
Nehemiah 12:29: "and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built them villages"
Nehemiah 12:42: "and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer."
Nehemiah 12:45: " And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment"
Nehemiah 12:46: "and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving"
Nehemiah 12:47: "of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion:"
Nehemiah 13:5: "the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests."
Nehemiah 13:10: "had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one"
