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Strong's G5603 ᾠδή (oide)

Oide means “song” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5603 — caphan (“cover”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5603
Language Greek
Linked Usages 83
Books 21

Strong's G5603 Quick Answer

Strong's G5603 ᾠδή (ode) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. ode (o-day') n. 1. a chant or "ode" {the general term for any words sung; while G5215 denotes especially a religious metrical composition, and G5568 still more specially, a Hebrew cantillation)} It has 83 linked Bible usages across 21 books. Visible English usage signals include sung and word. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
ode (o-day') n. 1. a chant or "ode" {the general term for any words sung; while G5215 denotes especially a religious metrical composition, and G5568 still more specially, a Hebrew cantillation)}
Usage
83 linked usages
Books
21 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
sung and word

Meaning and Definition

ode (o-day') n. 1. a chant or "ode" {the general term for any words sung; while G5215 denotes especially a religious metrical composition, and G5568 still more specially, a Hebrew cantillation)} [from G103] KJV: song Root(s): G103 Compare: G5215, G5568

Original Word
ᾠδή
Transliteration
ode
Derivation
Root: ᾄδω R1: 103
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5603. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

song

Usage: ᾠδή, -ῆς, ή [in LXX chiefly for שִׁיר ;] a song, ode, whether sad or joyful; in LXX and NT always in praise of God or Christ: Rev.5:9 14:3 15:3; ᾠ πνευματικαί Eph.5:19, Col.3:16.† (AS)

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How Strong's G5603 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ode, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

How Strong's G5603 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 69 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5603 (ᾠδή) appears 80 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5603 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G5603 in the New Testament

5 indexed usages in New Testament.

Ephesians 5:19 KJV

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Colossians 3:16 KJV

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Revelation 5:9 KJV

And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

Strong's G5603 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

69 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 15:1 Septuagint / Brenton

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to God, and spoke, saying, Let us sing to the Lord, for he is very greatly glorified: Horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.

Deuteronomy 31:19 Septuagint / Brenton

And now write the words of this song, and teach it to the children of Israel, and ye shall put it into their mouth, that this song may witness for me among the children of Israel to their face.

Deuteronomy 31:21 Septuagint / Brenton

And this song shall stand up to witness against them; for they shall not forget it out of their mouth, or out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their wickedness, what they are doing here this day, before I have brought them into the good land, which I swore to their fathers.

Strong's G5603 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

9 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Tobit 2:6 Septuagint / Brenton

remembering that prophecy of Amos, as he said, Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, And all your mirth into lamentation.

Tobit 13:18 Septuagint / Brenton

And all her streets shall say, Alleluia; and they shall praise him, saying, Blessed be God, which hath extolled it forever.

1 Maccabees 4:54 Septuagint / Brenton

At what time and day the heathen had profaned it, even in that was it dedicated with songs, and citterns, and harps, and cymbals.

Usage Excerpts

First 83 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5603.

Exodus 15:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to God, and spoke, saying, Let us sing to the Lord, for he is very greatly glorified: Horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.
Deuteronomy 31:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now write the words of this song, and teach it to the children of Israel, and ye shall put it into their mouth, that this song may witness for me among the children of Israel to their face.
Deuteronomy 31:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this song shall stand up to witness against them; for they shall not forget it out of their mouth, or out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their wickedness, what they are doing here this day, before I have brought them into the good land, which I swore to their fathers.
Deuteronomy 31:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses wrote this song in that day, and taught it to the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses spoke all the words of this song even to the end, in the ears of the whole assembly.
Deuteronomy 32:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses wrote this song in that day, and taught it to the children of Israel; and Moses went in and spoke all the words of this law in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
Judges 5:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song: Arise, Barak, And lead thy captivity captive, son of Abinoam.
2 Kingdoms 6:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David and the children of Israel were playing before the Lord on well-tuned instruments mightily, and with songs, and with harps, and with lutes, and with drums, and with cymbals, and with pipes.
2 Kingdoms 22:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David spoke to the Lord the words of this song, in the day in which the Lord rescued him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.
3 Kingdoms 5:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were five thousand.
3 Kingdoms 8:53 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because thou hast set them apart for an inheritance to thyself out of all the nations of the earth, as thou spokest by the hand of thy servant Moses, when thou broughtest our fathers out of the land of Egypt, O Lord God. He manifested the sun in the heaven: The Lord said he would dwell in darkness: Build thou my house, a beautiful house For thyself to dwell in anew. Behold, is not this written in the book of the song?
1 Chronicles 15:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David said to the chiefs of the Levites, Set your brethren the singers with musical instruments, lutes, harps, and cymbals, to sound aloud with a voice of joy.
1 Chronicles 15:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Chenaniah chief of the Levites was master of the bands, because he was skillful.
1 Chronicles 15:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David was girded with a fine linen robe, and all the Levites who were bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the band of singers; also upon David there was a robe of fine linen.
1 Chronicles 16:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And with them there were trumpets and cymbals to sound aloud, and musical instruments for the songs of God: and the sons of Jeduthun were at the gate.
2 Chronicles 5:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there was one voice in the trumpeting and in the psalm singing, and in the loud utterance with one voice to give thanks and praise the Lord; and when they raised their voice together with trumpets and cymbals, and instruments of music, and said, Give thanks to the Lord, for it is good, For his mercy endures forever— then the house was filled with the cloud of the glory of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 7:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priests were standing at their watches, and the Levites with instruments of music of the Lord, belonging to King David, to give thanks before the Lord, for his mercy endures forever, with the hymns of David, by their ministry: and the priests were blowing the trumpets before them, and all Israel standing.
2 Chronicles 23:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jehoiada the priest committed the works of the house of the Lord into the hand of the priests and Levites, and he re-established the courses of the priests and Levites which David appointed over the house of the Lord, and he appointed them to offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with gladness, and with songs by the hand of David.
2 Chronicles 34:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the men were faithfully engaged in the works: and over them were superintendents, Jahath and Obadiah, Levites of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of Kohath, appointed to oversee; and every Levite, and everyone that understood how to play on musical instruments.
Ezra 3:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
Nehemiah 12:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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 gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
Nehemiah 12:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.
Psalms 4:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the end, a Song of David among the Psalms.
Psalms 9:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord is known as executing judgments: The sinner is taken in the works of his hands. A song of Pause.
Psalms 17:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the end, a Psalm of David the servant of the Lord; the words which he spoke to the Lord, even the words of this Song, in the day in which the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: and he said:
Psalms 29:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the end, a Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David.
Psalms 38:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the end, a Song of David, to Jeduthun.
Psalms 41:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
By day the Lord will command his mercy, And manifest it by night: With me is prayer to the God of my life.
Psalms 44:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the end, for alternate strains by the sons of Korah; for instruction, a Song concerning the beloved.
Psalms 47:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Psalm of praise for the sons of Korah on the second day of the week.
Psalms 64:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the end, a Psalm and Song of David.
Psalms 65:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the end, a Song of a Psalm of resurrection. Shout unto God, all the earth.
Psalms 66:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the end, a Psalm of David among the Hymns.
Psalms 67:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the end, a Psalm of a Song by David.
Psalms 68:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;
Psalms 74:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the end, Destroy not, a Psalm of a Song for Asaph.
Psalms 75:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the end, among the Hymns, a Psalm for Asaph; a Song for the Assyrian.
Psalms 82:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of a Psalm for Asaph.
Psalms 86:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Psalm of a Song for the sons of Korah. His foundations are in the holy mountains.
Psalms 87:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A song of a Psalm for the sons of Korah for the end, upon Mahalath for responsive strains, of instruction for Heman the Israelite.
Psalms 90:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, Shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven.
Psalms 91:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Psalm of a Song for the Sabbath day.
Psalms 91:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
On a psaltery of ten strings, with a song on the harp.
Psalms 92:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the day before the Sabbath, when the land was first inhabited, the praise of a Song by David. The Lord reigns; he has clothed himself with honor: The Lord has clothed and girded himself with strength; For he has established the world, which shall not be moved.
Psalms 94:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The praise of a Song by David. Come, let us exult in the Lord; Let us make a joyful noise to God our Savior.
Psalms 95:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When the house was built after the Captivity, a Song by David. Sing to the Lord a new song; Sing to the Lord, all the earth.
Psalms 107:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Song of a Psalm by David.
Psalms 119:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of Degrees. In mine affliction I cried to the Lord, And he hearkened to me.
Psalms 120:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of Degrees. I lifted up mine eyes to the mountains, Whence my help shall come.
Psalms 121:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of Degrees. I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.
Psalms 122:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of Degrees. Unto thee who dwellest in heaven Have I lifted up mine eyes.
Psalms 123:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of Degrees. If it had not been that the Lord was among us, Let Israel now say;
Psalms 124:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of Degrees. They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion: He that dwells in Jerusalem shall never be moved.
Psalms 125:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of Degrees. When the Lord turned the captivity of Zion, We became as comforted ones.
Psalms 126:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of Degrees. Except the Lord build the house, They that build labor in vain: Except the Lord keep the city, The watchman watches in vain.
Psalms 127:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of Degrees. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord; Who walk in his ways.
Psalms 128:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of Degrees. Many a time have they warred against me from my youth, Let Israel now say:
Psalms 129:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of Degrees. Out of the depths have I cried to thee, O Lord.
Psalms 130:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of Degrees. O Lord, my heart is not exalted, Neither have mine eyes been haughtily raised: Neither have I exercised myself in great matters, Nor in things too wonderful for me.
Psalms 131:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of Degrees. Lord, remember David, And all his meekness:
Psalms 132:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of Degrees. See now! what is so good, or what so pleasant, As for brethren to dwell together?
Psalms 133:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Song of Degrees. Behold now, bless ye the Lord, All the servants of the Lord, Who stand in the house of the Lord, In the courts of the house of our God.
Psalms 136:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For there they that had taken us captive asked of us the words of a song; And they that had carried us away asked a hymn, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Psalms 136:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How should we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
Psalms 143:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O God, I will sing a new song to thee: I will play to thee on a psaltery of ten strings.
Amos 5:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Remove from me the sound of thy songs, and I will not hear the music of thine instruments.
Amos 8:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make them as the mourning of a beloved friend, and those with them as a day of grief.
Habakkuk 3:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A prayer of the prophet Habakkuk, with a song.
Habakkuk 3:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord God is my strength, And he will perfectly strengthen my feet; He mounts me upon high places, That I may conquer by his song.
Ephesians 5:19 New Testament, KJV
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Colossians 3:16 New Testament, KJV
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Revelation 5:9 New Testament, KJV
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
Revelation 14:3 New Testament, KJV
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Revelation 15:3 New Testament, KJV
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
Tobit 2:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
remembering that prophecy of Amos, as he said, Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, And all your mirth into lamentation.
Tobit 13:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And all her streets shall say, Alleluia; and they shall praise him, saying, Blessed be God, which hath extolled it forever.
1 Maccabees 4:54 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
At what time and day the heathen had profaned it, even in that was it dedicated with songs, and citterns, and harps, and cymbals.
1 Maccabees 13:51 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and entered into it the three and twentieth day of the second month, in the hundred seventy and first year, with thanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and with harps, and cymbals, and with viols, and hymns, and songs: because there was destroyed a great enemy out of Israel.
2 Maccabees 7:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord God looketh upon us, and in truth hath comfort in us, as Moses in his song, which witnessed to their faces, declared, saying, And he shall be comforted in his servants.
3 Maccabees 6:32 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Savior. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy.
4 Maccabees 18:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For he did not forget the song which Moses taught, proclaiming, I will kill, and I will make to live.
Wisdom of Sirach 39:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Magnify his name, And show forth his praise With the songs of your lips, and with harps, And in praising him ye shall say after this manner:
Wisdom of Sirach 47:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The countries marveled at thee for thy songs, And proverbs, and parables, and interpretations.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5603, grouped by book.

Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 43 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ephesians 1 usage, New Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 3 usages, New Testament
Tobit 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G5603 FAQ

What does oide (ᾠδή) mean?

Oide (Strong's G5603) is a Greek word most simply glossed "song". ode (o-day') n. 1. a chant or "ode" {the general term for any words sung; while G5215 denotes especially a religious metrical composition, and G5568 still more specially, a Hebrew cantillation)}

How many times is oide (ᾠδή) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 83 linked usages for Strong's G5603 across 21 books.

Where can I study oide (ᾠδή) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5603 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate oide (ᾠδή)?

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Does Strong's G5603 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 69 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 9 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5603, with linked reader references where each row is available.