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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Melody
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
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primarily "to twitch, twang," then, "to play a stringed instrument with the fingers," and hence, in the Sept., "to sing with a harp, sing psalms," denotes, in the NT, "to sing a hymn, sing praise;" in Ephesians 5:19 , "making melody" (for the preceding word ado, see SING). Elsewhere it is rendered "sing," Romans 15:9; 1 Corinthians 14:15; in James 5:13 , RV, "let him sing praise" (AV, "let him sing psalms"). See SING.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Melody'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/m/melody.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Melody'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/m/melody.html. 1940.
