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Psalm 137

Psa. 137:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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We hanged
talah (Hebrew #8518)
to suspend (especially to gibbet)
KJV usage: hang (up).
Pronounce: taw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
our harps
kinnowr (Hebrew #3658)
a harp
KJV usage: harp.
Pronounce: kin-nore'
Origin: from a unused root meaning to twang
upon the willows
`arab (Hebrew #6155)
a willow (from the use of osiers as wattles)
KJV usage: willow.
Pronounce: aw-rawb'
Origin: from 6148
in the midst
tavek (Hebrew #8432)
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
KJV usage: among(-st), X between, half, X (there- ,where-), in(-to), middle, mid(-night), midst (among), X out (of), X through, X with(-in).
Pronounce: taw'-vek
Origin: from an unused root meaning to sever
thereof.

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Cross References

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we hanged.Willows were so plentiful at Babylon, on the banks of the Euphrates, that Isaiah calls it "the brook or river of willows."
Psa. 33:2• 2Give thanks unto Jehovah with the harp; sing psalms unto him with the ten-stringed lute. (Psa. 33:2)
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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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Isa. 24:8• 8the mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. (Isa. 24:8)
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Ezek. 26:13• 13And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard. (Ezek. 26:13)
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Amos 8:10• 10And 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 for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. (Amos 8:10)
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Rev. 18:22• 22and voice of harp-singers and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters shall not be heard any more at all in thee, and no artificer of any art shall be found any more at all in thee, and voice of millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee, (Rev. 18:22)

J. N. Darby Translation

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We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.