psalm Definition
psalm (säm)
noun
- a sacred song or poem; hymn
- any of the sacred songs in praise of God constituting the Book of Psalms in the Bible
Etymology: ME psalme, saume < OE sealm < LL(Ec) psalmus < Gr psalmos, a twanging with the fingers (in LXX & N.T., song sung to the harp) < psallein, to twitch, pluck
psalm Synonyms
psalm Usage Examples
Preposition: of
praise: One day of prayer sounds like a psalm of praise, another sounds like Romans 7. Most days sound like a little of both.
Converse of object
- sing: He makes people rise at five in the morning to sing psalms.
- chant: The purpose of chanting psalms and singing hymns is not merely to glorify our language, but to heal it.
- compose: Hence, this is a Messianic Psalm composed about the greater David, the greater Solomon who was to come.
- pray: Perhaps psalm praying means praying the psalms in short, and praying long prayers like the prayers at the root of the psalms.
- translate: These translated Psalms follow Comus: A Mask in the 1673 text of Poems &c.
- read: Here was read the third psalm for the day.
Adjective modifier
- responsorial: As a rule the responsorial psalm should be sung.
- metrical: Metrical psalms he might have allowed, but certainly not the bulk of what appears in our hymn books.
- 23rd: The Lord is My Shepherd - there are a number of anthem versions of the 23rd psalm.
- imprecatory: While Bright deals only with Psalm 137, presumably he would also apply this principle of interpretation to the other imprecatory psalms.
- davidic: Certain authorities find no Davidic psalms in the Psalter.
- messianic: Be aware of the major types of messianic psalms.
Modifies a noun
- ps: Psalm Ps 116 r. Mk 16:15 Go out to the world; proclaim the Good News. or Alleluia!
- drummer: Psalm drummers have also beem part of many large events including Greenbelt, Soul Survivor and New Wine.
- singing: There was nothing odd to me about the unaccompanied Psalm singing.
- accompaniment: His psalm accompaniments often had a good measure of old-fashioned word painting.
- singer: He is as likely to talk of Bulgarian choirs as Albert Ayler, gagaku as John Coltrane, Gaelic psalm singers as Elvin Jones.
- setting: I did the same last year, and sang a Gelineau based psalm setting that seemed to go down all right.
Noun used with modifier
singing: Although dead, they were heard singing psalms even by their enemies.
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