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# psaltery

«psaltery» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **An old stringed musical instrument like a harp, played to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

An old stringed musical instrument like a harp, played to accompany songs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/psaltery/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It is one of the instruments used to praise God in the Temple and in the Psalms, along with the harp, timbrel and lyre. The Hebrew name is nevel. Interpretation: The Levites played such instruments in the Temple service. The tradition sees music as a way to rouse the heart to praise.

### examples

- Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake the dawn. (Writings PSA.108.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/psaltery/#x1)
- Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake the dawn. (Writings PSA.57.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/psaltery/#x2)
- Take up the melody, and sound the timbrel, the sweet harp with the psaltery. (Writings PSA.81.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/psaltery/#x3)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs; and let Me not hear the melody of thy psalteries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.90/)
- [That thrum on the psaltery, that devise for themselves instruments of music, like David;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.99/)
- [Give thanks unto the LORD with harp, sing praises unto Him with the psaltery of ten strings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.485/)
- [Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake the dawn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.940/)
- [Take up the melody, and sound the timbrel, the sweet harp with the psaltery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1439/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «psaltery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/psaltery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.