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Praise

הֻיְּדוֹתStrong’s H1960

huyydah (huy-y-dah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Huyydah is the Hebrew word usually translated “songs of thanksgiving”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.”
Nehemiah 12:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. Songs of praise
How it's translated
  • songs of thanksgiving 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Nehemiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    הֻיְּדוֹת huyydah · praise

    songs of praise

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “praise” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    PRAISE, noun

    s as z. [Latin pretium.]

    1. Commendation bestowed on a person for his personal virtues or worthy actions, on meritorious actions themselves, or on any thing valuable; approbation expressed in words or song. praise may be expressed by an individual, and in this circumstance differs from fame, renown, and celebrity, which are the expression of the approbation of numbers, or public commendation.
    2. The expression of gratitude for personal favors conferred; a glorifying or extolling.“He hath put a new song into my mouth, even praise to our God” Psalms 40:3
    3. The object, ground or reason of praise“He is thy praise and he is thy God” Deuteronomy 10:21
    All definitions and other forms of “praise”

      PRAISE, verb transitive

      [Latin tollo, extollo; pretium.]

      1. To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of personal worth or actions.
      2. To extol in words or song; to magnify; to glorify on account of perfections or excellent works.“PRAISE him, all his angels, praise ye him, all his hosts” Psalms 148:2
      3. To express gratitude for personal favors.
      4. To do honor to; to display the excellence of.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.