מְצִלְתַּיִם metselet

Hebrew word for “cymbal” · Strong’s H4700 · used 13 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

cymbals

How it is translated

Glosses given for metselet in context, with how often each is used:

• cymbals 13

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Chronicles 15 (3), 1 Chronicles 16 (2), 1 Chronicles 25 (2), 2 Chronicles 5 (2), 1 Chronicles 13 (1), 2 Chronicles 29 (1), Ezra 3 (1), Nehemiah 12 (1)

Forms

• במצלתים 6
• ובמצלתים 4
• ומצלתים 2
• מצלתים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with metselet more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• נֵבֶל nevel “harp” 9
• כִּנּוֹר kinnor “lyre” 9
• חֲצֹצְרָה chatsotserah “trumpet” 6
• אָסָף asaph “Asaph” 6
• הֵימָן heman “Heman” 5
• שִׁיר shir “song” 6
• יְדוּתוּן yedutun “Jeduthun” 4
• שִׁיר shir “to sing” 4
• לֵוִי leviyyi “Levi” 5
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 6
• כְּלִי keli “article/utensil” 4
• חָצַר chatsar “to blow” 2

Key verses

The verses using metselet that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Chronicles 13:8 — And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals,…
• 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,…
• 1 Chronicles 15:28 — Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise…
• 1 Chronicles 16:5 — Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom: and Jeiel with…
• 1 Chronicles 16:42 — And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun…
• 1 Chronicles 25:1 — Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with…
• 1 Chronicles 25:6 — All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 2 Chronicles 29:25 — And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s…
• Ezra 3:10 — And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph…
• Nehemiah 12:27 — And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.