Psalm
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G5568 is a Greek noun for a psalm or sacred song, often connected with the scriptural Psalms and with song offered in gathered worship. Colossians 3:16 calls believers to let Christ's word dwell richly among them as they teach and admonish one another with wisdom through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs marked by gratitude to God.
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G5568 is a Greek noun for a psalm or sacred song, often connected with the scriptural Psalms and with song offered in gathered worship. Colossians 3:16 calls believers to let Christ's word dwell richly among them as they teach and admonish one another with wisdom through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs marked by gratitude to God.
The BSB source-word alignment has 7 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include of Psalms (2), psalms (2), [the] Psalms (1), a psalm (1), Psalm (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 20:42. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (2), Luke (2), 1 Corinthians (1), Colossians (1).
G5568 is a Greek noun for a psalm or sacred song, often connected with the scriptural Psalms and with song offered in gathered worship. Colossians 3:16 calls believers to let Christ's word dwell richly among them as they teach and admonish one another with wisdom through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs marked by gratitude to God. First Corinthians 14:26 pictures a gathered member bringing a psalm alongside teaching, revelation, tongue, or interpretation, with every contribution governed by the aim of building up the church.
Luke 24:44 names the Psalms with the Law of Moses and the Prophets as Scriptures fulfilled in Jesus. G5568 opens praise, lament, memory, instruction, prayer, and Christ-centered reading. It corrects the reduction of worship to performance and the use of uplifting music to suppress grief, protest, truth, or accountable participation.
G5568 denotes a psalm or sacred song and can point to a contribution in gathered worship or to the scriptural collection of Psalms. Its contexts emphasize the word of Christ, wisdom, gratitude, fulfillment, intelligibility, and communal edification.
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
Psalms participate in wise mutual teaching and admonition as Christ's word dwells richly within a grateful community.
What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a psalm or a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. All of these must be done to build up the church.
A psalm may be brought by a gathered member, but every contribution must serve the church's edification and ordered participation.
Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
Jesus names the Psalms within Israel's Scriptures whose testimony reaches fulfillment in him.
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Greek word. Sacred song requiring musical accompaniment, etymologically rooted in plucking strings with fingers.
Sacred song requiring musical accompaniment, etymologically rooted in plucking strings with fingers.
(ψάλλω), [in LXX chiefly for מִזְמוֹר ;]
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
7 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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This word appears as a noun across 4 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
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G5568 joins song to the dwelling word. Colossians does not picture music as an escape from teaching but as one means by which believers wisely teach and admonish one another in gratitude. First Corinthians welcomes contributions while subjecting them to the common good, intelligibility, order, and discernment. Luke presents the Psalms as part of Israel's scriptural witness fulfilled in Jesus, not as isolated predictions detached from their poems and history.
The Psalms include praise, confession, lament, protest, wisdom, royal hope, and appeals for justice. Churches should sing their breadth without using violent imagery to target contemporary enemies or pressuring grieving people into cheerful performance. Musical excellence can serve love, but artists, technicians, and congregants are not instruments for a leader's platform.
Healthy worship credits creators, follows licensing, protects hearing and accessibility, shares participation wisely, and permits people to refrain when lyrics violate conscience. Sacred song forms a truthful community when beauty, Scripture, gratitude, lament, justice, and mutual care remain together.
Col.3.16
G5568 names a psalm or sacred song and is related to a verb for singing or making melody. In the New Testament it can describe an individual contribution, a category of communal song, or the canonical Psalms.
Israel's Psalms supply the church with a many-voiced school of prayer, and the Gospels show Jesus praying and interpreting them. Revelation continues Scripture-saturated song while directing worship toward God and the Lamb.