Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A writer or composer of psalms.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A writer or composer of psalms; especially, one of the authors of the psalms in the Bible; specifically, David.
- n. In early Christian music, a cantor or other official of the minor clergy charged with the singing of church music.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.
- n. (R. C. Ch.) A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a composer of sacred songs
Examples
“Three things the psalmist is here complaining of: -- 1.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“By this the psalmist is encouraged to pray for all the saints (ver. 10), for himself in particular and his own preservation (ver. 11), and to triumph in the certain fall of his enemies, ver.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“This the psalmist is soon aware of (v. 8), for he stands upon his watch-tower to hear what God will say unto him, as the prophet, Hab. ii.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“The psalmist is here remembering the days of old, the years of the right hand of the Most High, and the wonders which their fathers told them of (Judg.vi. 13), for time, as it does not wear out the guilt of sin, so it should not wear out the sense of mercy.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“The psalmist is here presenting his suit for the Israel of God, and pressing it home at the throne of grace, pleading with God for mercy and grace for them.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“The psalmist is here enlarged in thanksgivings for the prophecy and promise, v. 18, 19.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“The psalmist is designing to praise Jerusalem and to set forth the grandeur of that city; but he begins with the praises of God and his greatness (v. 1), and ends with the praises of God and his goodness, v. 14.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“May the sun of her progress and power be the sun of the psalmist, which is to us a bridegroom coming from his chamber rejoicing like a strong man to run a race.”
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
“One does not know whether the psalmist was a prosperous man or a poor one; the inference that he was prosperous and rich has sometimes been drawn, but wrongly drawn, from one of the verses of the Psalm.”
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index
“May the sun of her progress and power be this sun of the psalmist, which is as a bridegroom coming forth from his chamber, rejoicing like a strong man, to run a race.”
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