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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 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. (Judg. 11:34)
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2 Sam. 6:5• 5And 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. (2 Sam. 6:5)
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Psa. 68:25• 25The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels. (Psa. 68:25)
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Psa. 81:2• 2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. (Psa. 81:2)
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Psa. 149:3• 3Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. (Psa. 149:3)
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Psa. 150:4• 4Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. (Psa. 150:4)

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prophetess.
Judg. 4:4• 4And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she 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 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 coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy: (1 Sam. 10:5)
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2 Kings 22:14• 14So 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 dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her. (2 Kings 22:14)
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Luke 2:36• 36And 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; (Luke 2:36)
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Acts 21:9• 9And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy. (Acts 21:9)
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1 Cor. 11:5• 5But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoreth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. (1 Cor. 11:5)
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1 Cor. 14:34• 34Let 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. (1 Cor. 14:34)
sister.
Ex. 2:4• 4And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. (Ex. 2:4)
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Num. 12:1• 1And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. (Num. 12:1)
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Num. 20:1• 1Then 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. (Num. 20:1)
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Num. 26:59• 59And 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. (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 servants; 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 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. (Judg. 11:34)
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Judg. 21:21• 21And 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 Benjamin. (Judg. 21:21)
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1 Sam. 18:6• 6And 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, with joy, and with instruments of music. (1 Sam. 18:6)
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2 Sam. 6:5,14,16• 5And 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.
 14And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
 16And 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. (2 Sam. 6:5,14,16)
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Psa. 68:11,25• 11The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
 25The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels. (Psa. 68:11,25)
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Psa. 81:2• 2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. (Psa. 81:2)
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Psa. 149:3• 3Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. (Psa. 149:3)
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Psa. 150:4• 4Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. (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.