Higgaion

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meditation; consideration
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary



HIGGAION.?See Psalms (Titles).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


("meditation"), from hagah "to meditate." Found Psa_9:16; Psa_19:14; Psa_92:3 margin "upon the harp with musing" (Lam_3:61). A call to solemn reflection on God's dealings. The Selah (a pause in the music) follows to give time for meditation.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Higga'ion. (meditation). A word which occurs three times in the book of Psalms ? Psa_9:16; Psa_19:14; Psa_92:3. (margin). The word has two meanings, one of a general character, implying thought; reflection, and another, in Psa_9:16 and Psa_92:3, of a technical nature, the precise meaning of which cannot at this distance of time be determined. (Canon Cook says that it probably means an interlude, giving musical expression to the feelings suggested by the preceding words .? Editor).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


hi-gā?yon, hi-gı̄?on (הגּיון, higgāyōn): The meaning of this word is uncertain. Two interpretations are possible; the one based on an allied Arabic root gives ?a deep vibrating sound,? the other derived from the Greek versions of Psa_9:16, where we read higgāyōn Ṣelāh, takes it to mean an instrumental interlude. See PSALMS.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Higgaion
(Heb. higgayon', הַגָּיוֹן) occurs in Psa_92:3, where, according to Gesenius, it signifies the murmuring (Farst, low or solemn) tone of the harp, Sept. μετ᾿ ᾠδῆς ἐν κιθάρᾷ. In Psa_9:17, Higgaion Selah is a musical sign, prob. for a pause in the instrumental interlude, Sept. ᾠδὴ διὰ ψάλματος; and so Symn. Aqu. and Vulg. SEE SELAH. In Psalm 19:15 the term signifies (and is rendered) meditation, in Lam_3:62 a device. “Mendelsson translates it meditation, thought, idea. Knapp (Die Psalmen) identifies it in Psa_9:17 with the Arabic הגי, and הגא, ‘to mock,' and hence-his rendering ‘What a shout of laughter!' (because the wicked are entrapped in their own snares); but in Psa_92:4 he translates it by ‘Lieder' (songs). R. David Kimchi likewise assigns two separate meanings to the word; on Psa_9:17, he says, This aid is for us (a subject of) meditation and thankfulness,' while in his commentary on the passage, Psa_92:4, he gives to the same word the signification of melody, This is the melody of the hymn when it is recited (played) on the harp.' ‘We will meditate on this forever' (Rashi, Comment. on Psa_9:17). In Psalms 9; Psalms 17, Aben Ezra's comment on ‘Higgaion Selah' is, ‘this will I record in truth:' on Psa_92:4 he says, ‘Higgaion means the melody of the hymn, or it is the name of a musical instrument.' It would seem, then, that Higgaion has two meanings, one of a general character implying thought, reflection, from הגה(comp. יהגיון לבי, Psa_9:17, and והגיונם עלי כל היום, Lam_3:62), and another in Psa_9:17, and Psa_92:4, of a technical nature, bearing on the import of musical sounds or signs well known in the age of David, but the precise meaning of which cannot at this distance of time be determined.” SEE PSALMS.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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