'Play' in the Bible

And the name of his brother [was] Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and wind instruments.

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, you [are] about to lie [down] with your ancestors, and this people will arise and they will play the prostitute after {the foreign gods} of the land {to which they are going}.

Please, let our lord command your servants [who are] before you! Let them seek a man skilled in playing on the lyre. {When} the evil spirit from God [is] upon you, he can play {on it} and {you will feel better}."

So whenever the [evil] spirit from God came to Saul, David would take the stringed instrument and play it with his hand. Then {it would bring relief} for Saul; {he would feel better} and the evil spirit would depart from him.

Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah [were to play] on harps according to Alamoth;

and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah [were to play] lyres, directing according to the Sheminith.

Yes, [the] mountains yield produce for it, and all {wild animals} play there.

Will you play with it as [with] birds and put it on a leash for your girls?

Give thanks to Yahweh with [the] lyre; with a harp of ten strings play to him.

Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with jubilant shout.

There [the] ships sail. Leviathan [is there] that you formed to play with.

And {an infant} shall play over a serpent's hole, and {a toddler} shall put his hand on a viper's hole.

Yahweh, save me, and we will play my music [on] stringed instruments all the days of our lives at the temple of Yahweh."

Elders are no longer at the gate, young men no longer play stringed instruments.

And I said to her, "{You must remain as mine} for many days, and you will not play the whore; {you will not belong} to a man, and I [will] belong to you."

They will eat and not be satisfied; they will play the whore and not multiply, because they have forsaken Yahweh {to devote themselves to

On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice, and on the hills they make offerings, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and all your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

{I will not punish your daughters} when they play the whore, or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; because they go aside with whores, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes, a people that does not understand comes to ruin.

and not become idolaters, as some of them [did], just as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play,"