1. psalm / sacred song — A psalm or sacred song, originally referring to a song sung to stringed accompaniment, used in the NT both for OT Psalms (the biblical book) and for Christian worship songs. All three clusters are purely inflectional variants of the same noun psalmos: S79161 is dative masculine plural ('with psalms'), S79160 is dative/accusative masculine singular ('a psalm'), and S79163 is genitive masculine plural ('of Psalms'). Multilingual evidence is entirely uniform: English 'psalm/psalms', Spanish 'salmo/salmos', Hindi भजन/भजनों, Arabic مَزمور/مَزاميرَ/المَزَامِيرِ, Korean 시편/찬송, Swahili zaburi. No semantic distinction can be drawn between these grammatical forms; they all denote the same concept of a sacred song or psalm composition across all seven NT occurrences (Luke 20:42, 24:44, Acts 1:20, 13:33, 1 Cor 14:26, Eph 5:19, Col 3:16). 7×
AR["المَزاميرِ","المَزَامِيرِ","بِمَزاميرَ","مَزاميرَ","مَزمورٌ","مَزمورِ"]·ben["গীতসমূহে","গীতে","পুস্তকে","বললেন","সঙ্গীত"]·DE["Psalm","Ψαλμῶν","ψαλμοῖς","ψαλμῶν","ψαλμῷ"]·EN["Psalms","a-psalm","of-Psalms","psalm","psalms","with-psalms"]·FR["psaume","ψαλμοῖς"]·heb["מִזְמוֹר","מִזְמוֹרִים","תְּהִלִּים"]·HI["भजन","भजनों","भजनों-की","भजनोन","हो-जाए"]·ID["Mazmur","Mazmur,","mazmur","mazmur-mazmur,"]·IT["psalmois","psalmon","salmo"]·jav["Masmur","Masmur,","Mazmur,","kidung","masmur","mazmur","mazmur,"]·KO["시편-의","시편들","시편들-과","시편들에서","시편에서","시편의","찬송을"]·PT["dos-Salmos","salmo","salmos","salmos,"]·RU["Псалмах","Псалмов,","псалмами","псалмах,","псалме","псалмов","псалом"]·ES["Salmos","con-salmos","de-Salmos","de-salmos","salmo","salmos"]·SW["cha-Zaburi","cha-zaburi","kwa-zaburi","zaburi"]·TR["Mezmurlar","Mezmurlarda","Mezmurların","ilahi","mezmurda","mezmurlarla","ve-"]·urd["زبور","زبور-کی","زبوروں","زبُور"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
ψαλ-μός, ὁ, twitching or twanging with the fingers, ψαλμοὶ τόξων Refs 5th c.BC+ __II mostly of musical strings, πηκτίδων ψαλμοῖς κρέκον ὕμνον Refs 4th c.BC+ __II.2 the sound of the cithara or harp, Refs 5th c.BC+; there were contests in τὸ ψάλλειν, Refs 2nd c.BC+ __II.3 later, song sung to the harp, psalm, LXX+NT