Psalms 33:2

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument 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 the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. 5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
• Ps 144:9 : 9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
• Ps 98:4-5 : 4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. 5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
• Ps 92:3 : 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
• Ps 149:3 : 3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
• Rev 5:8 : 8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of 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 I heard 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 the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
• 1 Chr 15:16 : 16 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
• 1 Chr 15:28 : 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise 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, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.
• 1 Chr 25:6 : 6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
• Ps 71:22 : 22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
• Ps 81:2-3 : 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.