Exodus 15:20
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances."
Word-by-Word Analysis
מִרְיָם
Miryâm
Mirjam, the name of two Israelitesses
נְבִיאָה
nᵉbîyʼâh
a prophetess or (generally) inspired woman; by implication, a poetess; by association a prophet's wife
אָחוֹת
ʼâchôwth
a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively)
אַהֲרוֹן
ʼAhărôwn
Aharon, the brother of Moses
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
יָד
yâd
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
אַחַר
ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
Key Terms in This Verse
נְבִיאָה nᵉbîyʼâh
a prophetess or (generally) inspired woman; by implication, a poetess; by association a prophet's wife
Study H5031 →אָחוֹת ʼâchôwth
a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively)
Study H269 →אַחַר ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
Study H310 →Cross References
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, w...
Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwe...
And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benj...
The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.
And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets c...
And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
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