Book+of+Psalms

  • 11Psalms —    For several centuries, the churches of the Reformed tradition followed the lead of John Calvin in using the biblical book of Psalms as the only source for their hymnody. To make the Psalms accessible to contemporary congregations, they were… …

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  • 12Psalms of Solomon — One of the Pseudepigrapha,Harris, Stephen L., Understanding the Bible. Palo Alto: Mayfield. 1985.] the Psalms of Solomon is a group of eighteen psalms (religious songs or poems) that are not part of any scriptural canon. They are distinct from,… …

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  • 13Psalms — noun an Old Testament book consisting of a collection of 150 Psalms • Syn: ↑Book of Psalms • Instance Hypernyms: ↑book • Part Holonyms: ↑Hagiographa, ↑Ketubim, ↑Writings, ↑Old Testament …

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  • 14PSALMS —    the religious poetry of ANCIENT JUDAISM found primarily in the Book of Psalms in the HEBREW BIBLE …

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  • 15psalms — sÉ‘(l)m /sɑːm n. sacred song or hymn from the Book of Psalms in the Bible …

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  • 16Book of Common Prayer — noun the Anglican service book of the Church of England; has had several revisions since the Reformation and is widely admired for the dignity and beauty of its language • Instance Hypernyms: ↑service book • Part Meronyms: ↑Psalter, ↑Book of… …

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  • 17Book of Common Prayer — • Includes history and contents Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Book of Common Prayer     Book of Common Prayer     † …

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  • 18Psalms of Solomon —     Psalms of Solomon     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Psalms of Solomon     Eighteen apocryphal psalms, extant in Greek, probably translated from a Hebrew, or an Aramaic original, commonly assigned to the first century B.C. They contain little of… …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 19BOOK OF LIFE — BOOK OF LIFE, or perhaps more correctly BOOK OF THE LIVING (Heb. סֵפֶר חַיִּים, Sefer Ḥayyim), a heavenly book in which the names of the righteous are inscribed. The expression Book of Life appears only once in the Bible, in Psalms 69: 29 (28),… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 20Book of Wisdom — or Wisdom of Solomon or simply Wisdom is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. It is one of the seven Sapiential or wisdom books of the Septuagint Old Testament, which includes Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon (Song… …

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