Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
cymbal
Usage: cymbals
Metseleth means “cymbals” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4700 — spodos (“ashes”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4700 מְצֵלֶת (mtseleth) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. mtseleth (mets-ay'-leth) n-f. 1. (only dual) double tinklers, i.e. cymbals [from H6750] It has 13 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include cymbals. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
mtseleth (mets-ay'-leth) n-f. 1. (only dual) double tinklers, i.e. cymbals [from H6750] KJV: cymbals. Root(s): H6750
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cymbal
Usage: cymbals
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mtseleth, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Old 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.
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13 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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, and with trumpets.
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.
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4700.
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, and with trumpets.
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.
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;
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 with psalteries and harps.
Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;
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 were porters.
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 psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:
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, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
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:)
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;
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 seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
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 with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
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.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4700, grouped by book.
Metseleth (Strong's H4700) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "cymbals". mtseleth (mets-ay'-leth) n-f. 1. (only dual) double tinklers, i.e. cymbals [from H6750]
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's H4700 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4700 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cymbals. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.