psalm

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
2. One of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.

Verb

To extol in psalms; to make music; to sing

Concetti

salmo

sinonimi

hymn

song

🎶

gospel

hymnal

intone

spiritual

tone

hymnbook

sacred song

religious poem

Psalm

canticle

devotional song

doxology

Traduzioni

salmo

psaume

ψαλμός

Psalm

salmo

psalm

salm

mezmur

ilahi

psalmus

psalm

المزمور

zebur

مزمور

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/sɑːm/

Etimologia (Inglese)

From Middle English salm or psalme, from Old English psealm, later reinforced from Old French psalme (modern French psaume), both from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós, “the sound emanating from twitching or twanging perhaps with the hands or fingers, mostly of musical strings”) (from ψάλλω (psállō, “to make a sound by striking, touching, plucking, rubbing, twanging, or vibrating”)), but later in New Testament times the meaning of ψαλμός (psalmós) evolved from its Classical meaning of "a tune played to the harp" to a more general tune that could be played with any instrument; even a song sung with or without musical accompaniment. By the Byzantine Period, it lost all of its instrumental nuances.