Psalms 65:1

Bishops' Bible (1568)

To the chiefe musition, the psalme of Dauid, a song. O Lorde thou wylt be greatly praysed in Sion: and vnto thee shal vowes be perfourmed

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ מִזְמ֗וֹר לְדָוִ֥ד שִֽׁיר

Transliteration

To-the-mənaṣṣēaḥ mizmôr to-dāwid šîr

Grammar Details

• *mənaṣṣēaḥ*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed preposition lamed (to/for) - director/chief musician
• *mizmôr*: noun, masculine singular - psalm/song
• *dāwid*: proper noun with prefixed preposition lamed (to/for) - David
• *šîr*: noun, masculine singular - song

Word Meanings

• *mənaṣṣēaḥ*: chief musician/choir director/overseer
• *mizmôr*: psalm/melody/musical composition
• *šîr*: song/hymn/musical piece

Referenced Verses

• Ps 62:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition vpon Iudethun, a psalme of Dauid. My soule truly only stayeth vpon the Lorde: for of him commeth my saluation.
• Ps 76:11 : 11 Make vowes vnto God your Lorde, & perfourme them all ye that be rounde about hym: bryng presentes vnto hym that is dreadfull.
• Ps 116:17-18 : 17 I wyll offer vnto thee the sacrifice of thankesgeuyng: and I wyll call vpon the name of God. 18 I wyll pay my vowes vnto God in the sight of all his people:
• Ps 78:68-69 : 68 But he chose the tribe of Iuda: euen the hill of Sion which he loued. 69 And there he buylded his temple on high: and layde the foundation of it like a grounde euer to continue.
• Ps 76:2 : 2 At Shalem is his tabernacle: and his dwellyng in Sion.
• 1 Chr 11:7 : 7 And Dauid dwelt in the castell Sion and therefore they called it the citie of Dauid.
• 1 Chr 15:29 : 29 And as the arke of the appointment of the Lorde came into the citie of Dauid, Michol the daughter of Saul looking out at a windowe, sawe king Dauid daunsing and playing, and she despised him in her heart.
• 1 Chr 16:41-42 : 41 And with them were Heman and Ieduthun, and other that were chosen, whose names were expressed to geue thankes to the Lorde, That his mercie lasteth euer. 42 And with them dyd Heman and Ieduthun sing with the trumpets and cymbales, making a sweete melodie with instrumentes of musicke & godly songues: And the sonnes of Ieduthun were porters.
• 1 Chr 25:1-9 : 1 And so Dauid and the captaynes of the hoast appoynted out to do seruice the sonnes of Asaph, and Heman, & Ieduthun, which should prophecie with harpes, psalteries, and cymbales: And there was a multitude of the men that were appoynted to the seruice and ministration: 2 Of the sonnes of Asaph, Zacur, Ioseph, Nathania, and Asarela that wayted on Asaph which prophecied according to the commaundement of the king. 3 Of Ieduthun: the sonnes of Ieduthun, Gedeliahu, Zeri, Iesaiahu, Hasabiahu, and Mathathiahu, sixe, vnder the handes of their father Ieduthun, which prophecied with a harpe, for to geue thankes & prayses vnto the Lorde. 4 Of Heman: the sonnes of Heman, Bucciahu, Matthaniahu, Uzziel, Zebuel, Ierimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliatha, Geddalthi, Romanthi Ezer, Iosbekasa, Malothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth. 5 All these were the sonnes of Heman which was ye kinges sear in the wordes of God, to lyft vp the horne of the regall dignitie: And God gaue to Hema foureteene sonnes, and three daughters. 6 All these also were at the hand of their father, singing in the house of the Lord, with cymbales, psalteries, and harpes, when Asaph, Ieduthun, and Heman executed the seruice in the house of God at the kinges commaundement. 7 And the multitude of them with their brethre that were instruct in the songes of the Lorde, euen all that were cunning, were two hundred fourescore and eyght. 8 And they cast lottes among them selues how they should waite, aswel for the small as for the great, for the scholler aswell as for the schoolemaister. 9 And the first lot in Asaph fell to Ioseph, the second to Gedaliahu with his brethren and sonnes, which men were twelue. 10 The third fell to Zacur with his sonnes and brethren, being twelue persons. 11 The fourth, to Izri with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 12 The fifth to Nathaniahu with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 13 The sixt to Bucciahu with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 14 The seuenth to Iesrarela with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 15 The eyght to Iesaiahu with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 16 The ninth to Mathaiahu with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 17 The tenth to Semei with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 18 The eleuenth to Azareel with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 19 The twelfth to Hazabia with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 20 The thirteenth to Subael with his sonnes and brethren twelue persons. 21 The foureteenth, to Mathathiahu with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 22 The fifteenth to Ieremoth with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 23 The sixteenth to Hananiahu with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 24 The seuenteenth to Iosbekasa with his sonnes & brethren, twelue persons. 25 The eyghteenth to Hanani with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 26 The nineteenth to Malothi with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 27 The twenteeth to Eliaiha with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 28 The twentie and one to Hothir with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 29 The twentie & two to Geddalthi with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 30 The twentie and three to Mahazioth with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons. 31 The twentie and foure to Romamthi Ezer with his sonnes and brethren, twelue persons.
• Ps 21:13 : 13 Be thou exalted O God accordyng to thine owne might: so we wyll sing, and with psalmes we wyll prayse thy power.
• Ps 56:12 : 12 O Lorde, thy vowes be vpon me: vnto thee wyll I geue thankes & praise.
• Ps 115:1-2 : 1 Geue praise not vnto vs O God, not vnto vs, but vnto thy name: for thy louing mercy, and for thy truethes sake. 2 Wherfore shal the Heathen say: where is nowe their God?
• Rev 14:1-3 : 1 And I loked, and lo, a lambe stoode on the mount Sion, and with hym an hundreth fourtie and foure thousande, hauyng his fathers name written in their foreheades. 2 And I hearde a voyce from heauen, as the sounde of many waters, and as the voyce of a great thunder: And I hearde the voyce of harpers harpyng with their harpes: 3 And they song as it were a newe song before the throne, and before the foure beastes, & the elders, and no man coulde learne that song, but the hundreth and fourtie & foure thousande, which were redeemed from the earth.