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The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is Tehillim, which means "praise songs."The title adopted by the Septuagint translators for their Greek version was Psalmoimeaning "songs to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument."This Greek word comes from the Hebrew word mizmor that occurs in the titles of 57 of the psalms. In time the Greek word psalmoicame to mean "songs of praise"without reference to stringed accompaniment. The English translators transliterated the Greek title resulting in the title "Psalms"in English Bibles.
