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Gematria of Melody

2 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “melody” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 19 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
2
Occurrences
19
Distinct values
2

The 2 Hebrew words rendered “melody”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

נָגַןnâgan×15 in the TanakhH5059

properly, to thrum, i.e. beat atune with the fingers; expectation. to play on astringed instrument; hence (generally), to make music

Standard 103 →Gadol 753Katan 13Siduri (ordinal) 31Atbash 218Perati 5,009Milui 295

First appearance ·1 Samuel 16:16שמואל א טז:טזמְנַגֵּן

See all 4 occurrences of the spelling נגן →

זִמְרָהzimrâh×4 in the TanakhH2172

a musical piece or song to be accompanied by an instrument

Standard 252 →Gadol 252Katan 18Siduri (ordinal) 45Atbash 173Perati 41,674Milui 663

First appearance ·Isaiah 51:3ישעיהו נא:גזִמְרָֽה

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What is the gematria of melody?

The Tanakh renders “melody” with 2 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: נגן = 103 and זמרה = 252.

How do you say melody in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 2 Hebrew words for “melody”; the most frequent are נגן (nâgan), 15 times; זמרה (zimrâh), 4 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.