צְלָצַל
ṣelṣĕlîm
whirring locust
Strong's H6767NounHebrewTWOT 1919d

צְלָצַל (ṣelṣĕlîm) is a Hebrew noun meaning whirring locust. It appears 6 times in 5 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H6767).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1919d)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1919d)cymbals, clashing; clatter, whirring, cricket, harpoon, rattling, clanging; locust, shadowing, spear
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

צֶלְצְלִים noun, masculine, plural: cymbals, clashing

noun, masculine, cymbals (with clashing sound)

Strong's H6767 צְלָצַל: a clatter, i.e. (abstractly) whirring (of wings); (concretely) a cricket; also a harpoon (as rattling),a cymbal (as clanging)
KJV:cymbal, locust, shadowing, spear.

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 1919: צָלַל ṣālal — tingle, quiver; tinkle, rattle together

See it in Scripture

2 Samuel 6:5Psalms 150:5Isaiah 18:1

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