Exodus 15:20

Overview - Exodus 15
The song of Moses, Miriam, and Israel on their deliverance.
22 The people want water in the wilderness.
23 The waters at Marah are bitter, they murmur, Moses prays, and sweetens the waters by God's direction.
27 They encamp at Elim, where are twelve wells, and seventy palm trees.
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Exodus 15:20  (King James Version)
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
 


prophetess
Judges 4:4 ; 1 Samuel 10:5 ; 2 Kings 22:14 ; Luke 2:36 ; Acts 21:9 ; 1 Corinthians 11:5 ; 14:34

sister
2:4 Numbers 12:1 ; 20:1 26:59 Micah 6:4

a timbrel
{Toph,} in Arabic called {duff} or {diff,} and in Spanish
{adduffa,} is the {tabret} used in the East; being a thin, broad, wooden hoop, with parchment extended over one side of it, to which small pieces of brass, tin, etc., are attached, which make a jingling noise: it is held up with one hand and beaten upon with the other, and is precisely the same as the tambourine.

all the
Judges 11:34 ; 21:21 1 Samuel 18:6 ; 2 Samuel 6:5 2 Samuel 6:14 2 Samuel 6:16 ; Psalms 68:11 Psalms 68:25 ; 81:2 149:3
Psalms 150:4