TERMS IN THE PSALMS—part 1

TERMS IN THE PSALMS—part 1

              I believe that it is valuable to study the technical terms mentioned in the Book of Psalms.  Although exhaustive lists of the technical terms used in the psalter may not be of much help to those who read the Psalms, an understanding of what these terms mean is very valuable to all who read and study the Psalms.  Students of the Palms should understand that these words can only be defined and discussed in reference to the various author's opinions concerning their meaning in Scripture.  

              Presentations of where these terms appear in the Psalter have little significance except that it a logical approach to their presentation since most of the words have no interconnection with each other.  If the student of the Book of Psalms would like to study these terms in an exhaustive manner, The New Englishman's Hebrew Chaldee Concordance will be most helpful in such an endeavor.  Also, I would like to point out that there are literally hundreds of works written on the psalms, many of which cover the same material.  The following works were helpful to me in developing the definitions of terms in the psalms found in this chapter.  They are:

1.         Theological Word Book of the Old Testament.

2.         Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament.

3.         The New Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew-English Lexicon.

4.         An Expository Dictionary of Old Testament words.

5.         Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon of the Old Testament.

6.         The New Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance.

7.         Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon.