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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• 2Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. (Psa. 33:2)
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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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Isa. 24:8• 8The mirth of tabrets 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 of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. (Amos 8:10)
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Rev. 18:22• 22And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a 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.