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Strong's H7892 שִׁיר (shir)

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

Strong's Number H7892
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 56
Books 17

Strong's H7892 Quick Answer

Strong's H7892 שִׁיר שִׁירָה (shiyr) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shiyr (sheer) (or feminine shiyrah {shee-raw'}) n-f. 1. a song 2. abstractly, singing It has 56 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include song, songs, singing, musical, and sing. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
shiyr (sheer) (or feminine shiyrah {shee-raw'}) n-f. 1. a song 2. abstractly, singing
Usage
56 linked usages
Books
17 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
song, songs, singing, musical, and sing

Meaning and Definition

shiyr (sheer) (or feminine shiyrah {shee-raw'}) n-f. 1. a song 2. abstractly, singing [from H7891] KJV: musical(-ick), X sing(-er, -ing), song. Root(s): H7891

Original Word
שִׁיר שִׁירָה
Transliteration
shiyr
Derivation
Root: שׁיר שׁור First root strongs: 7891
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H7892. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H7892 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shiyr, 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.

song Exodus 15:1 31× songs Genesis 31:27 10× singing 1 Chronicles 6:32 musical 1 Chronicles 16:42 sing 2 Chronicles 23:13

How Strong's H7892 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 56 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H7892 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 H7892 in the Old Testament

56 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 31:27 KJV

Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?

Exodus 15:1 KJV

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

Numbers 21:17 KJV

Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:

Usage Excerpts

First 56 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7892.

Genesis 31:27 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
Exodus 15:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Numbers 21:17 Old Testament, KJV
Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
Deuteronomy 31:19 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:21 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
Deuteronomy 31:22 Old Testament, KJV
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:30 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
Deuteronomy 32:44 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
Judges 5:12 Old Testament, KJV
Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
2 Samuel 22:1 Old Testament, KJV
And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
1 Kings 4:32 Old Testament, KJV
And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.
1 Chronicles 6:31 Old Testament, KJV
And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
1 Chronicles 6:32 Old Testament, KJV
And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to their order.
1 Chronicles 13:8 Old Testament, KJV
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.
1 Chronicles 15:16 Old Testament, KJV
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.
1 Chronicles 16:42 Old Testament, KJV
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.
1 Chronicles 25:6 Old Testament, KJV
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.
1 Chronicles 25:7 Old Testament, KJV
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
2 Chronicles 5:13 Old Testament, KJV
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;
2 Chronicles 7:6 Old Testament, KJV
And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
2 Chronicles 23:13 Old Testament, KJV
And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
2 Chronicles 23:18 Old Testament, KJV
Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.
2 Chronicles 29:27 Old Testament, KJV
And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:28 Old Testament, KJV
And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
2 Chronicles 34:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.
Nehemiah 12:27 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Nehemiah 12:46 Old Testament, KJV
For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
Psalms 28:7 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
Psalms 33:3 Old Testament, KJV
Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
Psalms 40:3 Old Testament, KJV
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
Psalms 42:8 Old Testament, KJV
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Psalms 69:30 Old Testament, KJV
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Psalms 96:1 Old Testament, KJV
O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Psalms 98:1 Old Testament, KJV
O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
Psalms 137:3 Old Testament, KJV
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Psalms 137:4 Old Testament, KJV
How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?
Psalms 144:9 Old Testament, KJV
I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
Psalms 149:1 Old Testament, KJV
Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.
Proverbs 25:20 Old Testament, KJV
As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
Ecclesiastes 7:5 Old Testament, KJV
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 12:4 Old Testament, KJV
And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
Isaiah 5:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
Isaiah 23:15 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
Isaiah 23:16 Old Testament, KJV
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
Isaiah 24:9 Old Testament, KJV
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
Isaiah 26:1 Old Testament, KJV
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
Isaiah 30:29 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
Isaiah 42:10 Old Testament, KJV
Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
Ezekiel 26:13 Old Testament, KJV
And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
Ezekiel 33:32 Old Testament, KJV
And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Amos 5:23 Old Testament, KJV
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
Amos 6:5 Old Testament, KJV
That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
Amos 8:3 Old Testament, KJV
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
Amos 8:10 Old Testament, KJV
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7892, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 5 usages, Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 7 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 7 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 11 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 2 usages, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 7 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Old Testament
Amos 4 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H7892 FAQ

What does shir (שִׁיר) mean?

Shir (Strong's H7892) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "song". shiyr (sheer) (or feminine shiyrah {shee-raw'}) n-f. 1. a song 2. abstractly, singing

How many times is shir (שִׁיר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 56 linked usages for Strong's H7892 across 17 books.

Where can I study shir (שִׁיר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7892 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate shir (שִׁיר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as song, songs, singing, musical, and sing. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.