הִגָּיוֹן
higgāyôn
resounding music
Strong's H1902NounHebrewTWOT 467c

הִגָּיוֹן (higgāyôn) is a Hebrew noun meaning resounding music. It appears 4 times in 2 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H1902).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 467c)

Range of meaning (TWOT 467c)resounding music, meditation, musing; murmuring sound, musical notation, machination; device, Higgaion, solemn sound
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

הִגָּיוֹן noun, masculine: resounding music, meditation, musing

Strong's H1902 הִגָּיוֹן: a murmuring sound, i.e. a musical notation (probably similar to the modern affettuoso to indicate solemnity of movement); by implication, a machination
KJV:device, Higgaion, meditation, solemn sound.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 467: הָגָה hāgâ — moan, growl, utter, speak, muse; groan, soliloquize, meditate, imagine, devise; a conceiving and an uttering, out of the heart, lying words; those that make chirpings and mutterings; murmur, ponder; mourn, mutter, roar, study…

See it in Scripture

Lamentations 3:62

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