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The original greatest-hits album: 150 tracks, zero skips, all God.
means A book containing the Book of Psalms, often arranged for liturgical or devotional recitation and singing.
from From Greek 'psalterion,' a stringed instrument plucked to accompany songs — related to 'psallein,' meaning to pluck or play a string. The word traveled from the instrument to the songs sung with it (the Psalms), and finally to the book that holds them, passing through Latin 'psalterium' into Old English before settling into its current form.
- literal meaning
- book of the biblical Psalms, nothing else
- name origin
- from psalterion, a Greek stringed instrument
- medieval bestseller
- most copied book in Europe before printing
- daily use
- monks once chanted all 150 psalms weekly