Brown-Driver-Briggs
שִׁיר77 noun masculine song (Late Hebrew
id.; so Ecclus 40:21 +); —
׳שׁ absolute
Judges 5:12 +, construct 2 Chronicles 29:27 +; suffix
שִׁירִי Psalm 28:7, etc.; plural
שִׁירִים 1 Chronicles 13:8;
Songs 1:1;
שִׁרִים Genesis 31:27;
Proverbs 25:20; suffix
שִׁרֶ֫יךָ Amos 5:23, etc.; —
1 lyric song, + מָשָׁל 1 Kings 5:12, opposed to קִינָה Amos 8:10; joyous Genesis 31:27 (J) Isaiah 30:29; עגבים ׳שׁ Ezekiel 33:32; triumphal Judges 5:12; love song Songs 1:1 (twice in verse) (title שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים), Psalm 45:1 (שִׁיר יְדִידֹת); noisy Amos 5:23; Ezekiel 26:13, in drunken revels Isaiah 24:9, compare Isaiah 23:16; כסילים ׳שׁ Ecclesiastes 7:5; not for sorrow Proverbs 25:20; Psalm 137:3 (twice in verse); בְּנוֺת הַשִּׁיר Ecclesiastes 12:4 songstresses (probably birds).
2 religious song, in worship, "" תפלה Psalm 42:9; usually praise, הלל בשׁיר Psalm 69:31; מִשִּׁירִי אֲהוֺדֶנּוּ Psalm 28:7; שִׁרִ תְּהִלָּה וְהוֺדוֺת Nehemiah 12:46; ׳שׁיר י Psalm 137:4; 2Chronicles 29:27; שׁיר חדשׁ Isaiah 42:10 (fresh outburst), + 6 t., see חָדָשׁ; in Psalm-titles, שׁיר Isaiah 46:1, compare Isaiah 26:1; שׁיר המעלות pilgrim songs Psalm 120:1 14t. (see II. מַעִַלָה p.752); with מִמְוֺר Psalm 48:1 12t. (see ׳מִז p. 274); מַשְׁכִּיל שִׁיר Psalm 45:1 (׳שׁ originally alone in all except Psalm 30:1; Psalm 92:1; Psalm 108:1, see BrJBL xviii (1899), 138).
3 specifically song of Levitical choirs, with musical accompare, 1 Chronicles 6:16; 1 Chronicles 6:17; 1 Chronicles 13:8 (so read also "" 2 Samuel 6:5 for בְּרוֺשִׁים, ᵐ5 Th and modern, compare ׳ב), 1 Chronicles 25:6; 1 Chronicles 25:7; 2Chronicles 23:18; 29:28; Nehemiah 12:27; כלי (ה)שׁיר instrument to accompany song 1 Chronicles 15:16 6t. (see כְּלִי 2b); compare Amos 6:5.
שִׁירָה noun feminine song (plural ירות[שׁ] Ecclus 39:15); — absolute ׳שׁ Exodus 15:1 9t.; construct שִׁירַת Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 23:15; plural construct שִׁירוֺת Amos 8:3 (read שָׁרוֺת ᵐ5 HoffmZAW iii (1883) We and others); — song, ode, Exodus 15:1 (E), 2 Samuel 22:1 = Psalm 18:1; Deuteronomy 31:19 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 31:21,22,30; Deuteronomy 32:44; Numbers 21:17 (E) Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 23:15.
