Middle English, from Old English psealm, from Late Latin psalmus, from Greek psalmos, literally, twanging of a harp, from psallein to pluck, play a stringed instrument First Known Use before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above Time Traveler The first known use of psalm was bef...
(2017). The Structure, Genre, and Meaning of Psalm 129. Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 142-154. doi: 10.1080/09018328.2017.1301645doi:10.1080/09018328.2017.1301645AssisElieScandinavian Journal of the Old Testament...
" (Psalm 35:10). Yet this pointer to hierarchy is not about a God of arbitrariness, but about power in the service of life. El Shaddai. To Abraham God appears as God Almighty,El Shaddai(Gen 17:1). The designation "Shaddai, " which some think is the oldest of the divine names in ...
The battle that the Jews fought was not fought with swords and spears but with the alphabet and thus an information technology that would allow Israel's legacy to be preserved forever (Psalm 16:10, Acts 13:35). Psamtik I appears to have grasped that information technology is the true ...
The Psalmist wrote, “Be still, and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world” (Psalm 46:10). The context of this verse makes its message all the more fascinating and appropriate for our times. What
14 Depart from evil and do good. (Psalm 34:14) 7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life...
Modern science didn't know these things until Einstein, a Jew, thought of them — meaning that these truths were not discovered in a laboratory, but in the unaided mind of a ponderous man who had been brought up to think in patterns and self-similarities (Psalm 78:2, Matthew 13:35). ...
For example, in an acrostic psalm like Psalm 119 each verse of a stanza begins with the same letter of the Hebrew alphabet, with the psalm proceeding through the alphabet in twenty-two stanzas. This cannot be reproduced exactly in English, which has a very different alphabet of twenty-six ...
Oh, when the saints : a consideration of the meaning of Psalm 50.Van WijkBos, Johanna W H
Structure and Meaning in Hebrew Poetry: The Example of Psalm 23Pardee, DennisPardee, D. "Structure and Meaning in Hebrew Poetry: The Example of Psalm 23," Maarav 5-6, 1990 (239-280);