Psalms 33:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Give thanks to the LORD with the harp! Sing to him to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument!

📖 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 blast of the horn! Praise him with the lyre and the harp! 4 Praise him with the tambourine and with dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and the flute! 5 Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with clanging cymbals! 6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!
• Ps 144:9 : 9 O God, I will sing a new song to you! Accompanied by a ten-stringed instrument, I will sing praises to you,
• Ps 98:4-5 : 4 Shout out praises to the LORD, all the earth! Break out in a joyful shout and sing! 5 Sing to the LORD accompanied by a harp, accompanied by a harp and the sound of music!
• Ps 92:3 : 3 to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument and a lyre, to the accompaniment of the meditative tone of the harp.
• Ps 149:3 : 3 Let them praise his name with dancing! Let them sing praises to him to the accompaniment of the tambourine and harp!
• Rev 5:8 : 8 and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground before the Lamb. Each of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense(which are the prayers of the saints).
• Rev 14:2 : 2 I also heard a sound coming out of heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. Now the sound I heard was like that made by harpists playing their harps,
• Exod 15:20 : 20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a hand-drum in her hand, and all the women went out after her with hand-drums and with dances.
• 2 Sam 6:5 : 5 while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before the LORD, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, rattles, and cymbals.
• 1 Chr 15:16 : 16 David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint some of their relatives as musicians; they were to play various instruments, including stringed instruments and cymbals, and to sing loudly and joyfully.
• 1 Chr 15:28 : 28 All Israel brought up the ark of the LORD’s covenant; they were shouting, blowing trumpets, sounding cymbals, and playing stringed instruments.
• 1 Chr 25:3 : 3 From the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah– six in all, under supervision of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied as he played a harp, giving thanks and praise to the LORD.
• 1 Chr 25:6 : 6 All of these were under the supervision of their fathers; they were musicians in the LORD’s temple, playing cymbals and stringed instruments as they served in God’s temple. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the supervision of the king.
• Ps 71:22 : 22 I will express my thanks to you with a stringed instrument, praising your faithfulness, O my God! I will sing praises to you accompanied by a harp, O Holy One of Israel!
• Ps 81:2-3 : 2 Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument! 3 Sound the ram’s horn on the day of the new moon, and on the day of the full moon when our festival begins.