Bible word study

Zamar (Strong’s H2167): Meaning in the Bible

Zamar (זָמַר) is the Hebrew word numbered H2167 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, to touch the strings or parts of a musical instrument, i.e. play upon it; to make music, accompanied by the voice; hence to celebrate in song and music. In the King James Bible it is translated give praise, sing forth praises, psalms..

• Original wordזָמַר
• Transliterationzâmar
• Pronunciationzaw-mar'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH2167
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root (perhaps identical with H2168 through the idea of striking with the fingers);

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Zamar appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Zamar (H2167) stands behind 45 English renderings in 41 verses across 5 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (41), Judges (1), 2 Samuel (1).

How the King James Bible renders Zamar, by count

• praises19 of 45 (42 percent)
• sing16 of 45 (36 percent)
• praise7 of 45 (16 percent)
• psalms2 of 45 (4 percent)
• forth1 of 45 (2 percent)

Three places to read Zamar

• 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.
• Psalms 47:7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
• Psalms 98:5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Zamar in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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