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Psalms
Feature Pages(5+)
- FeatureWisdom 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.
- FeatureThe PsalmsA featured study.
- FeatureThe Messianic PsalmsPsalms 2, 16, 22, 23, 40, 45, 69, 110 — each cited by the New Testament as fulfilled in Christ. Psalm 22 laid out verse-by-verse alongside the Gospel crucifixion accounts.
- FeaturePraying the Hard PsalmsThe imprecatory psalms, unedited — every defence at full strength with its limits, and what a Christian actually does with these words.
- FeatureThe Songs of AscentsFifteen short psalms carried up the road to Jerusalem — a stair that climbs from distress through trust to blessing, ending at night in the house of the LORD.
Verses(5+)
- 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)
- 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)
- PlaceZionThe Temple hill and, by extension, Jerusalem as the dwelling-place of God — the gravitational center of the Psalms (Ps 48; 132; 137).
- PlaceEmmausA village about threescore furlongs from Jerusalem — its exact site still debated — on the road where the risen Christ expounded Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms concerning…
- PlaceThe TempleThe house of the LORD in Jerusalem — Solomon's temple and the Second Temple — the place the Psalms long to enter and praise God (Ps 84; 122).
Manuscripts(1)
Words (Strong's)(4)
- WordG5568 ψαλμός · psalmós (Greek)a set piece of music, i.e. a sacred ode (accompanied with the voice, harp or other instrument
- WordH2167 זָמַר · zâmar (Hebrew)play upon it
- 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…
- WordG5215 ὕμνος · hýmnos (Greek)probably akin to
Themes(5+)
- 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…
- ThemeResurrectionThe hope of resurrection surfaces gradually across the Old Testament before it becomes explicit. Job — likely the oldest book in the canon — already confesses a living Redeemer…
- 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…
- 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*…
- ThemeObedienceObedience enters the story at the very first command. In Eden, the boundary God sets — one tree, one prohibition — is the whole test of the relationship (Gen 2:17), and the…
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Authors(5+)
- AuthorNerses 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…
- AuthorDidymus 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…
- AuthorJohn 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…
- AuthorJacob 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…
- AuthorJohn WesleyJohn Wesley was born on June 17, 1703, at Epworth in Lincolnshire, the fifteenth of nineteen children born to Samuel Wesley, the rector, and Susanna, who taught the household…
Apocrypha (study resources)(4)
- 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.
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G5568ψαλμός psalmós — a set piece of music, i.e. a sacred ode (accompanied with
the voice, harp or other instrumentH2167זָמַר zâmar — play upon itH4609מַעֲלָה maʻălâh — 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, a superiority of station)G5215ὕμνος hýmnos — probably akin to