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psalm Definition

psalm (säm)

noun

  1. a sacred song or poem; hymn
  2. 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

n.

sacred song, praise, verse; see song.

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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