Psalms 149:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Let them praise his name in the dance: Let them sing praises unto him with timbrel and harp.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְהַֽלְל֣וּ שְׁמ֣וֹ בְמָח֑וֹל בְּתֹ֥ף וְ֝כִנּ֗וֹר יְזַמְּרוּ־לֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

yəhalləlû šəmô in-māḥôl in-tōp̄ wə-ḵinnôr yəzammərû-to-him

Grammar Details

*yəhalləlû*: imperfect, 3rd masculine plural, piel - they will praise/let them praise
*šəmô*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his name
*māḥôl*: noun, masculine singular with preposition bet - in dance
*tōp̄*: noun, masculine singular with preposition bet - with timbrel/tambourine
*wə*: conjunction - and
*ḵinnôr*: noun, masculine singular - harp/lyre
*yəzammərû*: imperfect, 3rd masculine plural, piel + preposition lamed + 3rd masculine singular suffix - they will sing praise to him

Word Meanings

*yəhalləlû*: praise/celebrate/extol
*šəmô*: his name/his reputation/his character
*māḥôl*: dance/dancing/circle dance
*tōp̄*: timbrel/tambourine/hand-drum
*ḵinnôr*: harp/lyre/stringed instrument
*yəzammərû*: sing praise/make music/play instruments

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

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.
Ps 81:2 : 2 Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Jer 31:13 : 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Ps 137:2-4 : 2 Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps. 3 For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing Jehovah's song In a foreign land?
Ps 150:3-5 : 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.
Judg 11:34 : 34 And Jephthah came to Mizpah unto his house; and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
2 Sam 6:14 : 14 And David danced before Jehovah with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
2 Sam 6:16 : 16 And it was so, as the ark of Jehovah came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Jehovah; and she despised him in her heart.
1 Chr 15:28-29 : 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. 29 And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of Jehovah came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.
1 Chr 16:42 : 42 and with them Heman and Jeduthun [with] trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and [with] instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.
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.
2 Chr 29:25 : 25 And he set the Levites in the house of Jehovah with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of Jehovah by his prophets.
Ezra 3:10 : 10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Jehovah, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Jehovah, after the order of David king of Israel.
Ps 30:11 : 11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
Ps 33:2 : 2 Give thanks unto Jehovah with the harp: Sing praises unto him with the psaltery of ten strings.

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