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Psalms
Israel's prayer book: the five books, the two ways, the genres of the heart, and every road running to the King on Zion who is Christ.
Verses
8 results- VerseEphesians 5:19Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,
- VerseLuke 20:42For David himself says in the book of Psalms: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand
- VerseActs 13:35So also, He says in another Psalm: ‘You will not let Your Holy One see decay.’
- VerseActs 1:20“For it is written in the book of Psalms: ‘May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,’ and, ‘May another take his position.’
- VerseColossians 3:16Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your…
People
3 results- PersonDavidSecond king of united Israel, shepherd-turned-monarch, ancestor of the Messiah, and traditional author of many Psalms.
- PersonAsaphA Levitical chief musician appointed by David over the temple song (1 Chr 16); twelve psalms bear his name (Ps 50, 73–83).
- PersonSolomonDavid's son and the third king of Israel; the temple-builder and wisdom-king, to whom Psalms 72 and 127 are ascribed.
Places
3 results- PlaceEmmausThe village on the road from Jerusalem where the risen Christ opened Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms to two disciples and was known to them in the breaking of the bread.
- PlaceZionThe eastern ridge David took from the Jebusites and made his stronghold, the name the Psalms and the prophets give the city the LORD chose, and the name Hebrews gives the…
- PlaceThe TempleThe house of the LORD in Jerusalem, Solomon's temple and the Second Temple after it, the place the Psalms long to enter.
Manuscripts
1 resultWords (Strong's)
4 results- WordG5568 ψαλμός · psalmós (Greek)a set piece of music, i.e. a sacred ode (accompanied with the voice, harp or other instrument. The Greek word stands 7 times in the original text.
- WordH2167 זָמַר · zâmar (Hebrew)play upon it. The Hebrew word stands 45 times in the original text.
- WordH4609 מַעֲלָה · maʻălâh (Hebrew)elevation, i.e. the act (literally, a journey to a higher place, figuratively, a thought arising), or (concretely) the condition (literally, a step or grademark, figuratively…. The Hebrew word…
- WordG5215 ὕμνος · hýmnos (Greek)probably akin to. The Greek word stands 2 times in the original text.
Themes
10 results- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeJusticeScripture's justice vocabulary runs on two paired Hebrew terms: *mishpat* (H4941), the right verdict rendered at the city gate — a legal, courtroom word — and *tsedaqah*…
- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
- ThemeSufferingSuffering enters the story at the Fall. Genesis 3 turns childbirth into pain and labor into toil, and the rest of the Old Testament treats hardship as the ordinary texture of…
- ThemeCreationScripture opens with a claim, not an argument: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1:1). The Genesis account moves in an ordered six-day sequence…
Topics
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13 results- StudyWisdom and the PoetsFive Hebrew voices in verse (Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song) and how their poetry, built on paired lines, meets every season of a life.
- StudyDavid's Life in the Psalms: the thirteen historical titles · MannaFestThirteen psalms whose titles name an event in David's life, each set beside the chapter in Samuel that tells it, in the order he lived them.
- StudyThe PsalmsIsrael's prayer book: the five books, the two ways, the genres of the heart, and every road running to the King on Zion who is Christ.
- StudyThe Acrostic PsalmsNine psalms walk the Hebrew alphabet from aleph to taw, and every one but Psalm 119 has a gap, a doubling or a line standing outside the scheme.
- StudyThe Hallel: Psalms 113 to 118 · MannaFestPsalms 113 to 118, the six sung at Passover and the pilgrim feasts, and the hymn Jesus sang with his disciples before Gethsemane.
Voices
33 results- VoiceNerses of LambronNerses was born in 1153 at the castle of Lambron in Cilicia — Armenian Cilicia, the kingdom Armenians had built along the southeastern coast of Asia Minor after the Seljuk…
- VoiceDidymus the BlindDidymus lost his sight at four years old, before he had learned to read. He never read a page in his life. He learned Scripture by having it read aloud to him, and he learned…
- VoiceJohn of the CrossJuan de Yepes y Álvarez was born in 1542 at Fontiveros, a village near Ávila in Castile. His father came from a family of silk merchants, married beneath his class, and was…
- VoiceJacob of EdessaJacob was born about 640 at Aindaba, near Antioch, in the first generation of Syrian Christians to live under Arab rule. He studied at the monastery of Qenneshre on the…
- VoiceThomas AquinasThomas was born about 1225 at Roccasecca, between Rome and Naples, the youngest son of the count of Aquino. His family sent him at five to the great Benedictine abbey of Monte…
Apocrypha (study resources)
4 results- Study resource2 Maccabees 1:30And the priests sung psalms of thanksgiving.
- Study resource2 Maccabees 10:38When this was done, they praised the Lord with psalms and thanksgiving, who had done so great things for Israel, and given them the victory.
- Study resource2 Maccabees 10:7Therefore they bare branches, and fair boughs, and palms also, and sang psalms unto him that had given them good success in cleansing his place.
- Study resource2 Maccabees 12:37And with that he began in his own language, and sung psalms with a loud voice, and rushing unawares upon Gorgias’ men, he put them to flight.