G5567
ψάλλω Betacode: YA/LLW
psal’-lo
Part of Speech: {V-PAI-1S}
MLV/Definition: sing@praise*, singing@praise*
"(Supplement: (James Strong and many others missed the mark here: Too many didn’t know or care to know that Koine Greek is a different language from Classical Greek. Others did not see that this word changed meanings over the 1000+ years it was used. The base word is ’to touch;’ and many Koine compounds (G4379, G5584, G5597) still carry this meaning. But this word like many other Greek words had nothing to do with its base word.
In early Classic Greek it meant ’to shoot an arrow’ by extension ’to pull back the string of a bow. Later as James Strong originally had to twitch or twang, i.e. to play on a stringed instrument (the Harp actually & specifically).
Later to sing Psalms with or without the harp. Then it became “sing praise” without instruments. Before the Byzantine era, ’sing’ without instruments (Italian ’A Capella’ (of the church). Same today in Modern Greek, simply ’sing’ not ’play’. We adopted this “middle road.” In the New Testament as documented by the majority of all Greek Lexicons & Scholars & History: simply ’to sing’ without instruments.
The first record of any musical instrument put in a congregation (Catholic Church at Rome) was about 606 AD by Boniface III and was never in common use. The Greek Orthodox Church split from the Catholic Church on its use; refusing to sin in about 1054 AD. This practice was not widely accepted until the 1400’s. )"
Etymology: {same as G4067}
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Greek Concordance: ( 5 ) Rom_15:9, 1Co_14:15, 1Co_14:15, Eph_5:19, Jas_5:13, [[ Other Texts: 0 - ]]
KJV: sing 3, sing Psalms 1, make melody 1 TR: 5
TDNT: 8:489,1225