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Verse	Translation	Text
Ps 81:2	Strong Concordance	Take [05375] a psalm [02172], and bring [05414] hither the timbrel [08596], the pleasant [05273] harp [03658] with the psaltery [05035].
	King James	Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
unites the most joyful kinds of music, vocal and instrumental.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

unites the most joyful kinds of music, vocal and instrumental.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Take a psalm - literally, "Lift up a psalm; perhaps, as we should say, "Raise the tune." Or, it may mean, Take an ode, a hymn, a psalm, composed for the occasion, and accompany it with the instruments of music which are specified. And bring hither the timbrel - For the purpose of praise. On the meaning of this word rendered "timbrel" - תף tôph - see the notes at Isa 5:12. The pleasant harp - On the word here rendered "harp" - כנור kinnôr - see also the notes at Isa 5:12. The word translated "pleasant" - נעים nâ‛ı̂ym - means properly pleasant, agreeable, sweet, Psa 133:1; Psa 147:1. It is connected here with the word harp, as meaning that that instrument was distinguished particularly for a sweet or pleasant sound. With the psaltery - On the meaning of the word used here - נבל nebel - see the notes at Isa 5:12. These were the common instruments of music among the Hebrews. They were employed alike on sacred occasions, and in scenes of revelry. See Isa 5:12.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Take a psalm - literally, "Lift up a psalm; perhaps, as we should say, "Raise the tune." Or, it may mean, Take an ode, a hymn, a psalm, composed for the occasion, and accompany it with the instruments of music which are specified.

And bring hither the timbrel - For the purpose of praise. On the meaning of this word rendered "timbrel" - תף tôph - see the notes at Isa 5:12.

The pleasant harp - On the word here rendered "harp" - כנור kinnôr - see also the notes at Isa 5:12. The word translated "pleasant" - נעים nâ‛ı̂ym - means properly pleasant, agreeable, sweet, Psa 133:1; Psa 147:1. It is connected here with the word harp, as meaning that that instrument was distinguished particularly for a sweet or pleasant sound.

With the psaltery - On the meaning of the word used here - נבל nebel - see the notes at Isa 5:12. These were the common instruments of music among the Hebrews. They were employed alike on sacred occasions, and in scenes of revelry. See Isa 5:12.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Take a psalm - זמרה zimrah. I rather think that this was the name of a musical instrument. Bring hither the timbrel - תף toph; some kind of drum or tom tom. The pleasant harp - כנור kinnor. Probably a sistrum, or something like it. A Stringed instrument. With the psaltery - נבל nebel, the nabla. The cithara, Septuagint.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

Take a psalm - זמרה zimrah. I rather think that this was the name of a musical instrument.

Bring hither the timbrel - תף toph; some kind of drum or tom tom.

The pleasant harp - כנור kinnor. Probably a sistrum, or something like it. A Stringed instrument.

With the psaltery - נבל nebel, the nabla. The cithara, Septuagint.

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