A musical instrument with a skin stretched over a frame, which is hit with hands or a mallet to make sound.
About Drum
The drum consisted of a membrane, usually of animal skin, which was stretched over a shallow circular, triangular, or square frame.
Key References
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an outpost. As you approach the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.
Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.
All Scripture References (16)
Genesis (1)
Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
Exodus (1)
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
Judges (1)
And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
1 Samuel (2)
After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an outpost. As you approach the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.
As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.
2 Samuel (1)
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.
1 Chronicles (1)
David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
Job (1)
singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
Psalms (3)
Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.
Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.
Isaiah (3)
At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.
And with every stroke of the rod of punishment that the LORD brings down on them, the tambourines and lyres will sound as He battles with weapons brandished.
Jeremiah (1)
Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.
Ezekiel (1)
You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.