Psalms 33:2

American Standard Version (1901)

Give thanks unto Jehovah with the harp: Sing praises unto him with the psaltery of ten strings.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הוֹד֣וּ לַיהוָ֣ה בְּכִנּ֑וֹר בְּנֵ֥בֶל עָ֝שׂ֗וֹר זַמְּרוּ־לֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

Hôdû to-YHWH with-kinnôr with-nēbel ʿāśôr zammərû-to-him

Grammar Details

• *Hôdû*: imperative, plural - give thanks/praise
• *YHWH*: divine name with preposition *lə-* (to)
• *kinnôr*: masculine singular noun with preposition *bə-* (with) - harp/lyre
• *nēbel*: masculine singular noun with preposition *bə-* (with) - harp/lute
• *ʿāśôr*: masculine singular noun - ten-stringed instrument
• *zammərû*: imperative, plural with preposition *lə-* (to) + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - sing praise

Word Meanings

• *Hôdû*: give thanks/praise/acknowledge
• *kinnôr*: lyre/harp
• *nēbel*: harp/lute/ten-stringed instrument
• *ʿāśôr*: ten-stringed (instrument)/decade
• *zammərû*: sing praise/make music/play instruments

Referenced Verses

• Ps 150:3-6 : 3 Praise him with trumpet sound: Praise him with psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with timbrel and dance: Praise him with stringed instruments and pipe. 5 Praise him with loud cymbals: Praise him with high sounding cymbals. 6 Let everything that hath breath praise Jehovah. Praise ye Jehovah.
• Ps 144:9 : 9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: Upon a psaltery of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
• Ps 98:4-5 : 4 Make a joyful noise unto Jehovah, all the earth: Break forth and sing for joy, yea, sing praises. 5 Sing praises unto Jehovah with the harp; With the harp and the voice of melody.
• Ps 92:3 : 3 With an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery; With a solemn sound upon the harp.
• Ps 149:3 : 3 Let them praise his name in the dance: Let them sing praises unto him with timbrel and harp.
• Rev 5:8 : 8 And when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having each one a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
• Rev 14:2 : 2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and the voice which I heard [was] as [the voice] of harpers harping with their harps:
• Exod 15:20 : 20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
• 2 Sam 6:5 : 5 And David and all the house of Israel played before Jehovah with all manner of [instruments made of] fir-wood, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with castanets, and with cymbals.
• 1 Chr 15:16 : 16 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.
• 1 Chr 15:28 : 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with psalteries and harps.
• 1 Chr 25:3 : 3 Of Jeduthun; the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun with the harp, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Jehovah.
• 1 Chr 25:6 : 6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of Jehovah, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king.
• Ps 71:22 : 22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, [Even] thy truth, O my God: Unto thee will I sing praises with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
• Ps 81:2-3 : 2 Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast-day.