God has gone up with a shout,
the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
Sing praises to God, sing praises;
sing praises to our King, sing praises.
For God is the king of all the earth;
sing praises with a psalm.
The Hebrew word for praise is זָמַר or zamar.
In a context such as that above, the translation is to sing or praise or both.
In other contexts the very same word means to trim or prune.
Scholars speculate the two uses are related through the use of trimmed wood as percussive and reed instruments.
But I notice that when I have offered praise to God, when I have sung my heart out, I am cleansed and pruned of excess.
Psalm 47
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