7 Hebrew Words for Praise

It has been argued by anthropologists that there are over 50+ words for “snow” used by the Eskimos. Snow is important to Eskimo culture and fundamental to live as a human in the arctic environment.

In a similar way, Simon Dunn recently taught about the fundamental aspect of our existence: we are made to worship God. That is a fundamental reason for our created existence and the telos of where we are headed in the New Heaven and New Earth.

In Revelation, John sees a majestic vision of praise around the throne of God: .

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.” (Rev. 4:11)

In Ephesians, Paul indicates that we are to be about “the praise of his glory” (Eph. 1:12, see also Eph.1:6, 14).

Simon pointed out that, in the Old Testament, there are seven different words for “praise” with various nuances of meaning and connotations for our life of worship.

What snow is to the Eskimo so is praise to being human!

Let everything that has breathe praise the Lord! (Psalm 150:6)