Strong's Lexicon

H4700

H4700 — מְצֵלֶת

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewmtselethnoun femOccurrences: 13TWOT: 1919f

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H4700
Word:	מְצֵלֶת
Part of Speech:	noun fem
Etymology:	from H6750
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	13
Transliteration:	mtseleth
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	mets-ay'-leth
Meaning:	1. (only dual) double tinklers, i.e. cymbals
KJV Renderings:	cymbals.

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מְצִלְתַּיִם feminine noun dual cymbals (apparently later equivalent of צֶלְצְלִים where see references); — ׳ מ 1Chr 13:8 (|| 2Sam 6:5 see צֶלְצְלִים ), 2Sam 15:19; 2Sam 16:5; 2Sam 16:42; 2Sam 25:6; 2Chr 5:12; 2Chr 5:13; 2Chr 29:25; Ezra 3:10; Neh 12:27 תָּ֑יִם- 1Chr 15:16; 1Chr 15:28; 1Chr 25:1.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מצלתים (m’tzil-tah’-yim)

1 Chronicles 13:8

KJV: 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.singing: Heb. songs

EHCC: with timbrels, and with cymbals,

1 Chronicles 15:16

KJV: And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

EHCC: paalteries and harpe and cymbals,

1 Chronicles 16:5

KJV: Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed–edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;with psalteries…: Heb. with instruments of psalteries and harps

EHCC: Asaph made a sound with cymbals ;

1 Chronicles 25:1

KJV: Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:

EHCC: with psalteries, and with cymbals:

2 Chronicles 5:12

KJV: Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

EHCC: cymbals and pealteries and harps,

2 Chronicles 29:25

KJV: And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the Lord by his prophets.commandment of the Lord: Heb. commandment by the hand of the Lordby: Heb. by the hand of

EHCC: with cymbals, with psalteries,

Ezra 8:10

KJV: And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.

EHCC: the sons of Asaph with cymbals,

Nehemiah 12:27

KJV: And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

EHCC: (with) cymbals, psalteries, and with