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Definition of Psalms

1. Noun. An Old Testament book consisting of a collection of 150 Psalms.

Definition of Psalms

1. Proper noun. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Tanakh. ¹

2. Noun. (plural of psalm) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Psalms

1. psalm [v] - See also: psalm

Lexicographical Neighbors of Psalms

Literary usage of Psalms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The Poetical Character of the Psalms.— There is much difference of opinion concerning ... The number of feet in a line in the Psalms varies from two to six, ..."

2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"Dublin, for tho Author The Book of Psalms in Metre, wherein closeness to the Text and ... A new Metrical Version of the Psalms of David, by Basil Wood. ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"To criticise the Psalms as literature is very difficult. Their text has reached us ... Those ancient hymns are crude and rude by the side of the Psalms. ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"To criticise the Psalms as literature is very difficult. Their text has reached us ... Those ancient hymns are crude and rude by the side of the Psalms. ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"To criticise the Psalms as literature is very difficult. Their text has reached us with many losses in the matter of poetic form. The authors varied much in ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"As to the Davidic authorship of psalms in the present Psalter, ... Were there once Davidic psalms in greater numbers, some might have been forgotten, ..."

7. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1834)
"The Psalms in Metre, newly translated, allowed by the Kirk of Scotland. Edinb. 1650. 24mo. The Psalms of David from the new Translation of the Bible, ..."

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