Psalms

Entertainment / Music / Psalms: Book from the Old Testament of the Bible: the 150 psalm texts, used in Jewish and Christian worship, are often set to music.
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Mashal

Entertainment / Literature / Mashal: (plural meshalim) In the Hebrew tradition, a mashal is a broad, general term including almost any type of figurative language from short riddles to long, extended allegories. It denotes 'mysterious sp MORE

Gregorian Chant

Entertainment / Music / Gregorian Chant: Monophonic melody with a freely flowing, unmeasured vocal line: liturgical chant of the Roman Catholic Church. Also plainchant or plainsong. MORE

Hallel

Entertainment / Literature / Hallel: (Hebrew, 'celebrate,' possibly adopted as a loanword from Eblaite) A hymn of praise, specifically in Psalms 113-18, each of which is headed with the plural imperative verb, Hallelujah. The hallel was MORE

Distych

Entertainment / Literature / Distych: The technical term for a two-line group in which a pair of metrical lines of different lengths together compose or express a complete idea (Wheeler 38). In Greek elegies, these distichs are usually rh MORE

Acrostic

Entertainment / Literature / Acrostic: A poem in which the first or last letters of each line vertically form a word, phrase, or sentence. Apart from puzzles in newspapers and magazines, the most common modern versions involve the first le MORE

Canticle

Entertainment / Literature / Canticle: A hymn or religious song using words from any part of the Bible except the Psalms. MORE