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Exodus 15

Ex. 15:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Miriam
Miryam (Hebrew #4813)
rebelliously; Mirjam, the name of two Israelitesses
KJV usage: Miriam.
Pronounce: meer-yawm'
Origin: from 4805
the prophetess
nbiy'ah (Hebrew #5031)
a prophetess or (generally) inspired woman; by implication, a poetess; by association a prophet's wife
KJV usage: prophetess.
Pronounce: neb-ee-yaw'
Origin: feminine of 5030
, the sister
'achowth (Hebrew #269)
a sister (used very widely (like 250), literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (an-)other, sister, together.
Pronounce: aw-khoth'
Origin: irregular feminine of 251
of Aaron
'Aharown (Hebrew #175)
Aharon, the brother of Moses
KJV usage: Aaron.
Pronounce: a-har-one'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
f, took
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
a timbrel
toph (Hebrew #8596)
a tambourine
KJV usage: tabret, timbrel.
Pronounce: tofe
Origin: from 8608 contracted
in her hand
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
; and all the women
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
went out
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
after
'achar (Hebrew #310)
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV usage: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
Pronounce: akh-ar'
Origin: from 309
her with timbrels
toph (Hebrew #8596)
a tambourine
KJV usage: tabret, timbrel.
Pronounce: tofe
Origin: from 8608 contracted
and with dances
mchowlah (Hebrew #4246)
a dance
KJV usage: company, dances(-cing).
Pronounce: mek-o-law'
Origin: feminine of 4284
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Judg. 11:34• 34And Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house, and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambours and with dances; and she was an only child: besides her he had neither son nor daughter. (Judg. 11:34)
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2 Sam. 6:5• 5And David and all the house of Israel played before Jehovah on all manner of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, and with lutes, and with tambours, and with sistra, and with cymbals. (2 Sam. 6:5)
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Psa. 68:25• 25The singers went before, the players on stringed instruments after, in the midst of maidens playing on tabrets. (Psa. 68:25)
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Psa. 81:2• 2Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute. (Psa. 81:2)
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Psa. 149:3• 3Let them praise his name in the dance; let them sing psalms unto him with the tambour and harp. (Psa. 149:3)
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Psa. 150:4• 4Praise him with the tambour and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and the pipe; (Psa. 150:4)

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Cross References

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prophetess.
Judg. 4:4• 4And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, judged Israel at that time. (Judg. 4:4)
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1 Sam. 10:5• 5After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where are the outposts of the Philistines; and it shall come to pass, when thou comest thither, into the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with lute and tambour and pipe and harp before them; and they themselves prophesying. (1 Sam. 10:5)
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2 Kings 22:14• 14And Hilkijah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe: now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter of the town; and they spoke with her. (2 Kings 22:14)
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Luke 2:36• 36And there was a prophetess, Anna, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, who was far advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from her virginity, (Luke 2:36)
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Acts 21:9• 9Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied. (Acts 21:9)
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1 Cor. 11:5• 5But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved woman. (1 Cor. 11:5)
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1 Cor. 14:34• 34Let your women be silent in the assemblies, for it is not permitted to them to speak; but to be in subjection, as the law also says. (1 Cor. 14:34)
sister.
Ex. 2:4• 4And his sister stood afar off to see what would happen to him. (Ex. 2:4)
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Num. 12:1• 1And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had taken; for he had taken a Cushite as wife. (Num. 12:1)
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Num. 20:1• 1And the children of Israel, the whole assembly, came into the wilderness of Zin, in the first month; and the people abode at Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. (Num. 20:1)
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Num. 26:59• 59And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister. (Num. 26:59)
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Mic. 6:4• 4For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. (Mic. 6:4)
a timbrel.{Toph,} in Arabic called {duff} or {diff,} and in Spanish {adduffa,} is the {tabret} used in the East; being a thin, broad, wooden hoop, with parchment extended over one side of it, to which small pieces of brass, tin, etc., are attached, which make a jingling noise:
it is held up with one hand and beaten upon with the other, and is precisely the same as the tambourine.all the.
Judg. 11:34• 34And Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house, and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambours and with dances; and she was an only child: besides her he had neither son nor daughter. (Judg. 11:34)
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Judg. 21:21• 21and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. (Judg. 21:21)
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1 Sam. 18:6• 6And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambours, with joy, and with triangles. (1 Sam. 18:6)
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2 Sam. 6:5,14,16• 5And David and all the house of Israel played before Jehovah on all manner of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, and with lutes, and with tambours, and with sistra, and with cymbals.
 14And David danced before Jehovah with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
 16And as the ark of Jehovah came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Jehovah; and she despised him in her heart. (2 Sam. 6:5,14,16)
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Psa. 68:11,25• 11The Lord gives the word: great the host of the publishers.
 25The singers went before, the players on stringed instruments after, in the midst of maidens playing on tabrets. (Psa. 68:11,25)
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Psa. 81:2• 2Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute. (Psa. 81:2)
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Psa. 149:3• 3Let them praise his name in the dance; let them sing psalms unto him with the tambour and harp. (Psa. 149:3)
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Psa. 150:4• 4Praise him with the tambour and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and the pipe; (Psa. 150:4)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambour in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambours and with dancesb.

JND Translation Notes

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Dance choirs.