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Psalm 33

Psa. 33:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Praise
yadah (Hebrew #3034)
used only as denominative from 3027; literally, to use (i.e. hold out) the hand; physically, to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing the hands)
KJV usage: cast (out), (make) confess(-ion), praise, shoot, (give) thank(-ful, -s, -sgiving).
Pronounce: yaw-daw'
Origin: a primitive root
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
with harp
kinnowr (Hebrew #3658)
a harp
KJV usage: harp.
Pronounce: kin-nore'
Origin: from a unused root meaning to twang
: sing
zamar (Hebrew #2167)
properly, to touch the strings or parts of a musical instrument, i.e. play upon it; to make music, accompanied by the voice; hence to celebrate in song and music
KJV usage: give praise, sing forth praises, psalms.
Pronounce: zaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root (perhaps ident. with 2168 through the idea of striking with the fingers)
unto him with the psaltery
nebel (Hebrew #5035)
from 5034; a skin-bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence, a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form)
KJV usage: bottle, pitcher, psaltery, vessel, viol.
Pronounce: neh'-bel
Origin: or nebel {nay'-bel}
v and an instrument of ten strings
`asowr (Hebrew #6218)
from 6235; ten; by abbrev. ten strings, and so a decachord
KJV usage: (instrument of) ten (strings, -th).
Pronounce: aw-sore'
Origin: or masor {aw-sore'}
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Psa. 150:3‑4• 3Praise him with the sound of the trumpet; praise him with lute and harp;
 4Praise him with the tambour and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and the pipe; (Psa. 150:3‑4)

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Cross References

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Praise.
Psa. 81:2‑3• 2Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.
 3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day: (Psa. 81:2‑3)
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Psa. 92:3• 3Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the lute; upon the Higgaion with the harp. (Psa. 92:3)
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Psa. 98:4‑5• 4Shout aloud unto Jehovah, all the earth; break forth and shout for joy, and sing psalms.
 5Sing psalms unto Jehovah with the harp: with the harp, and the voice of a song; (Psa. 98:4‑5)
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Psa. 144:9• 9O God, I will sing a new song unto thee; with the ten-stringed lute will I sing psalms unto thee: (Psa. 144:9)
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Psa. 149:3• 3Let them praise his name in the dance; let them sing psalms unto him with the tambour and harp. (Psa. 149:3)
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Psa. 150:3‑6• 3Praise him with the sound of the trumpet; praise him with lute and harp;
 4Praise him with the tambour and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and the pipe;
 5Praise him with loud cymbals; praise him with high sounding cymbals.
 6Let everything that hath breath praise Jah. Hallelujah! (Psa. 150:3‑6)
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Ex. 15:20• 20And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambour in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambours and with dances. (Ex. 15:20)
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2 Sam. 6:5• 5And David and all the house of Israel played before Jehovah on all manner of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, and with lutes, and with tambours, and with sistra, and with cymbals. (2 Sam. 6:5)
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1 Chron. 15:16,28• 16And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren, the singers, with instruments of music, lutes, and harps, and cymbals, that they should sound aloud, lifting up the voice with joy.
 28And all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah with shouting, and with sound of the trumpet, and with clarions, and with cymbals, playing aloud with lutes and harps. (1 Chron. 15:16,28)
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1 Chron. 25:3,6• 3Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Isaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, and Shimei six, under the direction of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with the harp, to give thanks and to praise Jehovah.
 6All these were under the direction of their fathers Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman, for song in the house of Jehovah, with cymbals, lutes and harps, for the service of the house of God, under the direction of the king. (1 Chron. 25:3,6)
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Rev. 5:8• 8And when it took the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each a harp and golden bowls full of incenses, which are the prayers of the saints. (Rev. 5:8)
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Rev. 14:2• 2And I heard a voice out of the heaven as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of great thunder. And the voice which I heard was as of harp-singers harping with their harps; (Rev. 14:2)
with the psaltery.{Benaivel âsor,} rather, "with the ten-stringed {nabla;}" see on 1 Ch 13:8.

J. N. Darby Translation

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Give thanks unto Jehovah with the harp; sing psalms unto him with the ten-stringedc lute.

JND Translation Notes

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Ps. 92.3; 144.9.