SONGS OF DEGREES

See DEGREES, SONGS OF; DIAL OF AHAZ, 7.

a title given to fifteen Psalms, from 120 to 134 inclusive. Four of them are attributed to David, one is ascribed to the pen of Solomon, and the other ten give no indication of their author. With respect to the term rendered in the Authorized Version "degrees" a great diversity of views prevails, but the most probable opinion is that they were pilgrim songs, sung by the people as they went up to Jerusalem.

After These Things, Her Nine Months Being Fulfilled, Anna Brought ...
... Footnotes: [1628] Corresponding with the fifteen Songs of Degrees, Psalm
120.cxxxiv. See Smith's Dict.--art. Songs of Degrees. ...
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On the Psalms. I.
... And again, there are also certain others which are called "Songs of degrees," in
number fifteen, as was also the number of the steps of the temple, and which ...
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Appendix 1 Massecheth Middoth
... And fifteen steps went up from there to the Court of Israel, like the fifteen
degrees in the Psalms [Songs of Degrees in the Psalms]. ...
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Psalm XXXIX.
... 2. You know that some of the Psalms are entitled, "Songs of Degrees;" and in
the Greek it is obvious enough what the word ?nabathmon means. ...
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Book ix. On Jerusalem and Her Enemies
... [Cant.2:9; Jer.9:21]. The step is the ascent of the spirit; in the title of
the psalms: the songs of degrees. [Ps.119(120):1 Vulgate]. ...
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Looking to the Hills
... The so-called 'Songs of Degrees,' of which this psalm is one, are usually, and
with great probability, attributed to the times of the Exile. ...
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Mountains Round Mount Zion
... The so-called 'Songs of Degrees,' of which this psalm is one, are probably a pilgrim's
song-book, and possibly date from the period of the restoration of ...
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Psalm CXXV.
... 1. This Psalm, belonging to the number of the Songs of Degrees, teacheth us, while
we ascend and raise our minds unto the Lord our God in loving charity and ...
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As, Then, by the Higher Mystical Ascent from Matters that Concern ...
... Chrysostom, on the Songs of "Degrees" in the Psalms, says that they are so called
because they speak of the going up from Babylon, according to history; but ...
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Psalm XC.
... Hence in the Psalms, fifteen "songs of degrees." Hence the waters of the deluge
overtopped the highest mountains by fifteen cubits: [4251] and many other ...
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