Psalms 98:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זַמְּר֣וּ לַיהוָ֣ה בְּכִנּ֑וֹר בְּ֝כִנּ֗וֹר וְק֣וֹל זִמְרָֽה׃

Transliteration

Zammərū to-YHWH with-kinnōr with-kinnōr and-qōl zimrāh

Grammar Details

• *Zammərū*: verb, piel imperative masculine plural - make music/sing praises
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *kinnōr*: noun, masculine singular - lyre/harp
• *qōl*: noun, masculine singular construct - sound/voice
• *zimrāh*: noun, feminine singular - melody/song/psalm

Word Meanings

• *Zammərū*: sing praises/make music/play instruments
• *kinnōr*: lyre/harp/stringed instrument
• *qōl*: sound/voice/noise
• *zimrāh*: melody/psalm/song/music

Referenced Verses

• Isa 51:3 : 3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
• 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 14:2-3 : 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: 3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
• 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 25:1-6 : 1 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was: 2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king. 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. 4 Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth: 5 All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. 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.
• Ps 33:2 : 2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
• Ps 92:3-4 : 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound. 4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad{H8765)} through thy work: I will triumph{H8762)} in the works of thy hands.