- Original: נגן
- Transliteration: Nagan
- Phonetic: naw-gan'
- Definition:
1. to play or strike strings, play a stringed instrument
a. (Qal)
1. player (participle)
b. (Piel)
1. to play 1b
c. player, minstrel (participle)
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 1292.1
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: A primitive root; prop to thrum that is beat a tune with the fingers; especially to play on a stringed instrument; hence (generally) to make music: - player on instruments sing to the stringed instruments melody ministrel play (-er. -ing).
Total KJV Occurrences: 15
• instrument, 1
Ezekiel 33:32
• instruments, 1
Psalm 68:25
• melody, 1
Isaiah 23:16
• minstrel, 2
2 Kings 3:15(2)
• play, 3
1 Samuel 16:16;
1 Samuel 16:17;
Psalm 33:3
• played, 4
1 Samuel 16:23;
1 Samuel 18:10;
1 Samuel 19:9;
2 Kings 3:15
• player, 1
1 Samuel 16:16
• playing, 1
1 Samuel 16:18
• songs, 1
Isaiah 38:20