Psalms 150 · Verse 4

Psalms 150:4

Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
Psalms 150:4, King James Version

Psalms 150:4 in other translations

BSBPraise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.
WEBPraise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!
ASVPraise him with timbrel and dance: Praise him with stringed instruments and pipe.
YLTPraise Him with timbrel and dance, Praise Him with stringed instruments and organ.
DARBYPraise him with the tambour and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and the pipe;
BBEGive him praise with instruments of brass and in the dance: give him praise with horns and corded instruments.
WebsterPraise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

What does Psalms 150:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 150:3-4

3-4. trumpet--used to call religious assemblies;

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 4 Praise him with the timbrel - תף toph, drum, tabret, or tomtom, or tympanum of the ancients; a skin stretched over a broad hoop; perhaps something like the tambarine. Anglo-Saxon; the glad pipe. Taburne; Old Psalter. And dance - מחול machol, the pipe. The croude or crowthe: Old Psalter; a species of violin. It never means dance; see the note on Psa 149:3. Crwth signifies a fiddle in Welsh. Stringed instruments - מנים minnim. This literally signifies strings put in order; perhaps a triangular kind of hollow instrument on which the strings were regularly placed, growing shorter and shorter till they came to a point. This would give a variety of sounds, from a deep bass to a high treble. In an ancient MS. Psalter before me, David is represented in two places, playing on such an instrument. It may be the sambuck, or psaltery, or some such instrument. Organs - עוגב ugab. Very likely the syrinx or mouth organ; Pan's pope; both of the ancients and moderns. The fistula, septem, disparibus nodis conjuncta, made of seven pieces of cane or thick straw, of unequal lengths, applied to the lips, each blown into, according to the note intended to be expressed. This instrument is often met with in the ancient bucolic or pastoral writers.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Psalms 150:4 in the original Hebrew

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הַֽ֭לְלוּהוּHa.lu.hupraise himH1984
בְתֹ֣ףve.Tofwith tambourineH8596
וּמָח֑וֹלu.ma.Choland dancingH4234
הַֽ֝לְל֗וּהוּha.Lu.hupraise himH1984
בְּמִנִּ֥יםbe.mi.Nimwith stringed instrumentsH4482
וְעוּגָֽב\׃ve.'u.Gavand fluteH5748

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Cross references for Psalms 150:4

  • Isaiah 38:20

    The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

  • Psalms 149:3

    Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

  • Exodus 15:20

    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.

  • Psalms 144:9

    I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

  • Psalms 92:3

    Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

  • Job 30:31

    My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

  • Psalms 33:2

    Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

  • Psalms 45:8

    All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

  • Job 21:12

    They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

  • Habakkuk 3:19

    The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
with the timbrel.
Ex 15:20
dance. or, pipe.
149:3; *marg:
stringed.
33:2; 92:3; 144:9; Isa 38:20; Hab 3:19
organs.
Job 30:31

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Context

  • Psalms 150:3

    Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

  • Psalms 150:4

    Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

  • Psalms 150:5

    Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.

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Psalms 150:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Alabadle con adufe y flauta: alabadle con cuerdas y órgano.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Louez-le avec le tambourin et la danse! Louez-le avec des instruments à cordes et le chalumeau!
German
Elberfelder 1871		Lobet ihn mit Tamburin und Reigen; lobet ihn mit Saitenspiel und Schalmei!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Laudate eum in tympano et choro; laudate eum in chordis et organo.