Zamir - Song / Prune (זָמִיר) The root of this noun זמר is commonly used in biblical Hebrew to express the action of "singing" or "playing a musical instrument" and it is still used this way in Modern Hebrew. However, there is a secondary meaning for this root in biblical Hebrew, "to prune" or "to trim". It is explicitly used only three times in the Hebrew Bible with this meaning (Leviticus 25:3-4; Isaiah 5:6). Yet, there is one text in the Hebrew Bible wherein this root is seemingly employed with both meanings: “Flowers appear on the earth / The time of singing has come / The voice of the turtledove is heard in our land” (Song of Songs 2:12, NRSV). The Hebrew word for "singing" is the word, זָמִיר. Despite the translation above, the poet appears to be intentionally exploiting both possible meanings for this root in order to parallel the second line with the first (flowers: pruning) and the third (singing: voice of the turtledove): “Flowers appear on the earth / The time of pruning/singing has come / The voice of the turtledove is heard in our land”.