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American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

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A religious canticle, song, or psalm, Ephesians 5:19 Colossians 3:16 . Paul requires Christians to edify one another with "psalms and hymns and spiritual songs." Matthew says that Christ and his disciples, having supped, sung a hymn, and went out. They probably chanted a part of the psalms which the Jews used to sing after the Passover, which they called the Halal; that is, the Hallelujah psalms. These are Psalm 113:1-118:29 , of which the first two are supposed to have been chanted before the Passover was eaten, and the others afterwards.

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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Hymn'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ats/​h/hymn.html. 1859.
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