ψαλτήριον
harp, psaltery
Where this word appears
Every passage where ψαλτήριον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 18 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 4:21 ψαλτήριον And the name of his brother was Jubal; he it was who invented the lute and harp.
- Ezra 22:27 ψαλτήριον
- Job 21:12 ψαλτήριον and they rejoice at the voice of a song.
- Psalms 32:2 ψαλτήριον Praise the Lord on the harp; platy to him on a lute of ten strings.
- Psalms 48:5 ψαλτήριον Therefore should I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall compass me.
- Psalms 56:9 ψαλτήριον O Lord, I will give thanks to you among the nations: I will sing to you among the Gentiles.
- Psalms 80:3 ψαλτήριον Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of your feast.
- Psalms 91:4 ψαλτήριον For you, O Lord, have made me glad with your work: and in the operations of your hands will I exult.
- Psalms 107:3 ψαλτήριον I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the people; I will sing praise to you among the Gentiles.
- Psalms 143:9 ψαλτήριον O God, I will sing a new song to you: I will play to you on a lute of ten strings.
- Psalms 149:3 ψαλτήριον Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sings praises to him with timbrel and lute.
- Psalms 150:3 ψαλτήριον Praise him with the sound of a trumpet: praise him with lute and harp.
- Psalms 151:2 ψαλτήριον My hands formed a musical instrument, and my fingers tuned a lute.
- Isaiah 5:12 ψαλτήριον For they drink wine with harp, and lute, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands.
- Isaiah 38:20 ψαλτήριον O God of my salvation; and I will not cease blessing you with the lute all the days of my life before the house of God.
- Ezekiel 26:13 ψαλτήριον And he shall destroy the multitude of your musicians, and the sound of your lutes shall be heard no more.
- Ezekiel 33:32 ψαλτήριον And you are to them as a sound of a sweet, well-tuned lute, and they will hear your words, but they will not do them.
- Daniel 3:5 ψαλτήριον at what hour you⌃ shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and lute, and every kind of music, you⌃ shall fall down and worship the golden image which king Nabuchodonosor has set up.
About this word
About this word
ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), “harp, psaltery,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 18 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →