Strong's Hebrew · H4517

H4517 mᵉnaʻnaʻ

מְנַעְנַע

men-ah-ah'

castanets

Looking for Greek G4517 rhṓnnymi? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H4517. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.

mᵉnaʻnaʻ appears once in Scripture, in 2 Samuel 6:5. In the Doxa app, open that verse, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

a sistrum (so called from its rattling sound)

In the King James Version

cornet.

Derivation

from H5128 (נוּעַ);

Appears 1 time in Scripture

2 Samuel 6:5

“David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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