1 Chronicles 13:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, with singing, with harps, with psalteries, with timbrels, with cymbals, and with trumpets.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְדָוִ֣יד וְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל מְשַׂחֲקִ֛ים לִפְנֵ֥י הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּכָל־עֹ֑ז וּבְשִׁירִ֤ים וּבְכִנֹּרוֹת֙ וּבִנְבָלִ֣ים וּבְתֻפִּ֔ים וּבִמְצִלְתַּ֖יִם וּבַחֲצֹצְרֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

wə-dāwîd wə-kol-yiśrāʾēl məśaḥăqîm li-pnê hā-ʾĕlōhîm bə-kol-ʿōz û-bə-šîrîm û-bə-kinnōrôt û-bi-nbālîm û-bə-tuppîm û-bim-ṣiltayim û-ba-ḥăṣōṣərôt

Grammar Details

• *wə-dāwîd*: conjunction + proper noun - and David
• *wə-kol*: conjunction + noun construct - and all of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *məśaḥăqîm*: Piel participle masculine plural - playing/celebrating
• *li-pnê*: preposition + plural construct noun - before/in front of
• *hā-ʾĕlōhîm*: definite article + masculine plural noun - the God
• *bə-kol*: preposition + noun construct - with all
• *ʿōz*: masculine singular noun - strength/might
• *û-bə-šîrîm*: conjunction + preposition + masculine plural noun - and with songs
• *û-bə-kinnōrôt*: conjunction + preposition + feminine plural noun - and with harps/lyres
• *û-bi-nbālîm*: conjunction + preposition + masculine plural noun - and with harps/lutes
• *û-bə-tuppîm*: conjunction + preposition + masculine plural noun - and with tambourines
• *û-bim-ṣiltayim*: conjunction + preposition + dual noun - and with cymbals
• *û-ba-ḥăṣōṣərôt*: conjunction + preposition + feminine plural noun - and with trumpets

Word Meanings

• *məśaḥăqîm*: playing/celebrating/rejoicing/dancing
• *kinnōrôt*: harps/lyres/stringed instruments
• *nbālîm*: harps/lutes/string instruments
• *tuppîm*: tambourines/timbrels/hand-drums

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  David and all Israel celebrated with all their might before God, with songs, harps, lyres, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And David{H1732} and all Israel{H3478} played{H7832} before{H6440} God{H430} with all their might,{H5797} even with songs,{H7892} and with harps,{H3658} and with psalteries,{H5035} and with timbrels,{H8596} and with cymbals,{H4700} and with trumpets.{H2689}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And David{H1732} and all Israel{H3478} played{H7832}{(H8764)} before{H6440} God{H430} with all their might{H5797}, and with singing{H7892}, and with harps{H3658}, and with psalteries{H5035}, and with timbrels{H8596}, and with cymbals{H4700}, and with trumpets{H2689}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  As for Dauid and all Israel, they played with all their strength before God, with songes, with harpes, with psalteries, with tabrettes, with Cymbales and trompes.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And Dauid and all Israel played before God with all their might, both with songes and with harpes, and with violes, and with timbrels & with cymbales and with trumpets.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And Dauid and all Israel played before the arke of God with all their might, with singing, and harpes, psalteries, and tymbrels, and cymbales, and trumpettes.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And David and all Israel played before God with all [their] might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and David and all Israel are playing before God, with all strength, and with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Then David and all Israel made melody before God with all their strength, with songs and corded instruments of music, and with brass instruments and horns.

• World English Bible (2000)

  David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 10:5 : 5 After that you shall come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is: and it shall happen, when you come there to the city, that you shall meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tambourine, and a flute, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
• 2 Sam 6:5-9 : 5 And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all kinds of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals. 6 And when they came to Nachon's threshing floor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it, for the oxen shook it. 7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error, and there he died by the ark of God. 8 And David was displeased because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah; and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day. 9 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me? 10 So David would not move the ark of the LORD to him into the city of David, but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite. 11 And the ark of the LORD stayed in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months, and the LORD blessed Obededom and all his household. 12 And it was told to King David, saying, The LORD has blessed the house of Obededom, and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness. 13 And it was so, that when those who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might, and David was girded with a linen ephod. 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet. 16 And 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. 17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it, and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. 18 And as soon as David had finished offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts. 19 And he gave to all the people, even the whole multitude of Israel, both the women and men, to everyone a cake of bread, a good piece of meat, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed, each to his house. 20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet David and said, How glorious was the king of Israel today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the maids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself! 21 And David said to Michal, It was before the LORD, who chose me before your father and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel; therefore will I play before the LORD. 22 And I will yet be more vile than this, and will be base in my own sight; and of the maidservants whom you have spoken of, by them shall I be held in honor. 23 Therefore Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no child to the day of her death.
• 2 Kgs 3:15 : 15 But now bring me a musician. And it happened, when the musician played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
• 1 Chr 15:10-24 : 10 Of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brethren, one hundred and twelve. 11 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab, 12 And said to them, You are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it. 13 For because you did not do it at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for we did not seek Him after the due order. 14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel. 15 And the children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles on it, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD. 16 And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding by lifting up the voice with joy. 17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and from his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and from the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; 18 And with them their brethren of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Elipheleh, Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters. 19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass; 20 And Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries tuned to Alamoth; 21 And Mattithiah, Elipheleh, Mikneiah, Obededom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the Sheminith to excel. 22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was in charge of the singing: he instructed about the singing, because he was skillful. 23 And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark. 24 And Shebaniah, Jehoshaphat, Nethaneel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before the ark of God; and Obededom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
• 1 Chr 15:28 : 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of cornets, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
• 1 Chr 16:5 : 5 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obededom, and Jeiel with psalteries and harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;
• 1 Chr 16:42 : 42 And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were gatekeepers.
• 1 Chr 23:5 : 5 Moreover, four thousand were gatekeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise with them.
• 1 Chr 25:1-6 : 1 Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for service the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, psalteries, and cymbals: and the number of the workers according to their service was: 2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied according to the king's order. 3 Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the direction of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD. 4 Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth: 5 All these were the sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God, to exalt the horn. And God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. 6 All these were under the direction of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
• Ps 47:5 : 5 God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
• Ps 68:25-27 : 25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the maidens playing with timbrels. 26 Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel. 27 There is little Benjamin with their leader, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
• Ps 150:3-5 : 3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet; praise him with the lute and harp. 4 Praise him with the tambourine and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and flutes. 5 Praise him with loud cymbals; praise him with high sounding cymbals.
• Dan 3:5-7 : 5 That at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, you shall fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. 6 And whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. 7 Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
• Amos 5:23 : 23 Take away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your lutes.
• Amos 6:5 : 5 Who sing to the sound of the harp, and invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;