Psalms 149:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the 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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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 Take{H8798)} a psalm, and bring{H8798)} hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Jer 31:13 : 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and 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 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Ps 150:3-5 : 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.
Judg 11:34 : 34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
2 Sam 6:14 : 14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
2 Sam 6:16 : 16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
1 Chr 15:28-29 : 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. 29 And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window 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 make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.
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.
2 Chr 29:25 : 25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD 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 so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
Ezra 3:10 : 10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
Ps 30:11 : 11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
Ps 33:2 : 2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

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