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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Mazmur 81:2

(81-3) Angkatlah lagu, bunyikanlah rebana, kecapi yang merdu, diiringi gambus.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Harp;   Music;   Psaltery;   Timbrel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Instruments, Chosen;   Music;   Musical Instruments;   Timbrels;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Harp;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Joy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   Music and Musical Instruments;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Tabret;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Tabret, Timbrel,;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gittith;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Music;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Shirah, Pereḳ (Pirḳe);   Timbrel;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for January 2;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(81-3) Angkatlah lagu, bunyikanlah rebana, kecapi yang merdu, diiringi gambus.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Nyanyilah ramai-ramai bagi Allah, yang kuat kami, dan bersorak-soraklah bagi Allah Yakub!

Contextual Overview

1 Sing we meryly vnto the Lorde our strength: make a chearefull noyse vnto the Lorde of Iacob. 2 Take the psalterie: bryng hyther the tabret, the merie harpe, with the lute. 3 Blowe vp the trumpet in the newe moone, euen in the time appointed: and vpon our solempne feast day. 4 For this was made a statute for Israel: and a lawe of the God of Iacob. 5 This he ordayned in Ioseph for a testimonie, when he came out of the lande of Egypt: [where] I hearde a tongue [whiche] I knewe not. 6 I eased his shoulder from the burthen: and his handes ceassed from making pottes. 7 Thou calledst vpon me in troubles, and I deliuered thee: I hearde thee out of the middest of a thunder, I proued thee also at the waters of strife. Selah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 92:3, Psalms 95:1, Psalms 95:2, Psalms 149:1-3, Mark 14:26, Ephesians 5:19, Colossians 3:16, James 5:13

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:20 - all the 1 Chronicles 15:21 - harps 1 Chronicles 25:1 - harps Psalms 33:2 - Praise Psalms 43:4 - upon Psalms 98:6 - trumpets Psalms 108:2 - Awake Psalms 137:2 - we hanged Psalms 149:3 - with the timbrel Psalms 150:3 - with the sound Isaiah 30:32 - every place Revelation 5:8 - having

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take a psalm,.... Or "lift one up" y; hold up the book, and read and sing it; or rather, lift up the voice in singing a psalm:

and bring hither the timbrel; or "give one" z, put the hand to one:

the pleasant harp with the psaltery; make use of all these musical instruments in singing, and so make an agreeable melody: these were used in the times of the Old Testament, and were typical of the spiritual joy and melody in the heart, expressed by vocal singing, under the New Testament; see Revelation 5:8.

y שאן "attollite", Piscator; "tollite", Cocceius, Amama, Gejerus. z תנו "date", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Take a psalm - literally, “Lift up a psalm; perhaps, as we should say, “Raise the tune.” Or, it may mean, Take an ode, a hymn, a psalm, composed for the occasion, and accompany it with the instruments of music which are specified.

And bring hither the timbrel - For the purpose of praise. On the meaning of this word rendered “timbrel” - תף tôph - see the notes at Isaiah 5:12.

The pleasant harp - On the word here rendered “harp” - כנור kinnôr - see also the notes at Isaiah 5:12. The word translated “pleasant” - נעים nâ‛ı̂ym - means properly pleasant, agreeable, sweet, Psalms 133:1; Psalms 147:1. It is connected here with the word harp, as meaning that that instrument was distinguished particularly for a sweet or pleasant sound.

With the psaltery - On the meaning of the word used here - נבל nebel - see the notes at Isaiah 5:12. These were the common instruments of music among the Hebrews. They were employed alike on sacred occasions, and in scenes of revelry. See Isaiah 5:12.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 81:2. Take a psalm — זמרה zimrah. I rather think that this was the name of a musical instrument.

Bring hither the timbrel — תף toph; some kind of drum or tom tom.

The pleasant harp — כנור kinnor. Probably a sistrum, or something like it. A STRINGED instrument.

With the psaltery. — נבל nebel, the nabla. The cithara, Septuagint.


 
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