KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 33:1–3
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Psalms 33:1
1REJOICE in the Lord, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
1¶ Reioyce in the LORD, O yee righteous: for prayse is comely for the vpright.
Psalms 33:2
2Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
2Praise the LORD with harp: sing vnto him with the Psalterie, and an instrument of ten strings.
Psalms 33:3
3Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
3Sing vnto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 33:1
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Just, right, or conforming to God's law and judgment; equitable or upright; as a noun, a person characterized as righteous.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Approval, honour, or commendation expressed in words or song; also to commend, extol, or glorify.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Pleasing, beautiful, becoming, or fitting.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Straight or erect; also honest, just, and faithful to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 33:2
Approval, honour, or commendation expressed in words or song; also to commend, extol, or glorify.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
A stringed musical instrument sounded by the fingers.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To produce musical sounds with the voice; to celebrate, praise, or tell in song.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A stringed musical instrument used in praise and song.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
instrument
A device constructed and played to produce music.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Cords or lines, including bowstrings; figuratively in Mark 7:35, a restraint or impediment of the tongue.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 33:3
To produce musical sounds with the voice; to celebrate, praise, or tell in song.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Recently made, begun, known, or received; fresh, different, or not old.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To make music, take part in sport or action, perform a part, or act in a stated manner.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A sound, especially a loud sound, report, or outcry; as a verb, to spread by report.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study11Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
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Open the full verse study4Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
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Open the full verse study1PRAISE ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
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Open the full verse study15The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.
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Open the full verse study12Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
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Open the full verse study30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
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Open the full verse study8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
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Open the full verse study36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
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Open the full verse study3Praise the Lord; for the Lord is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant.
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Open the full verse study14Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
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Open the full verse study10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
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Open the full verse study19For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
From verse 2
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Open the full verse study3Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
4Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
5Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
6Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.
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Open the full verse study4Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
5Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
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Open the full verse study9I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
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Open the full verse study20¶ 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.
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Open the full verse study16And 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.
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Open the full verse study28Thus 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.
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Open the full verse study3Of 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.
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Open the full verse study6All 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.
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Open the full verse study5And 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.
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Open the full verse study22I 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.
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Open the full verse study2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
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Open the full verse study3Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
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Open the full verse study2And 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:
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Open the full verse study8And 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.
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Open the full verse study3Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
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Open the full verse study19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
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Open the full verse study7So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the Lord, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
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Open the full verse study10Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
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Open the full verse study1O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
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Open the full verse study8And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
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Open the full verse study16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
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Open the full verse study9I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
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Open the full verse study1O SING unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
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Open the full verse study1PRAISE ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.
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Open the full verse study3And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
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Open the full verse study9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
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Open the full verse study22And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.
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Open the full verse study12And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.
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Open the full verse study3And 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.
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