Melody (Verb) - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Melody (Verb)

[ 1,,G5567, psallo ]
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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