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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Mahalath
Mahalath here is not a person but a musical or liturgical term in the headings of Psalms 53 and 88, both of which are set "upon Mahalath." Its exact meaning is uncertain; suggestions include a tune name, a wind instrument, or a word related to sickness or suffering fitting the psalms' somber content, but no consensus survives from antiquity.
Mahalath here is not a person but a musical or liturgical term in the headings of Psalms 53 and 88, both of which are set "upon Mahalath." Its exact meaning is uncertain; suggestions include a tune name, a wind instrument, or a word related to sickness or suffering fitting the psalms' somber content, but no consensus survives from antiquity.
Mahalath here is not a person but a musical or liturgical term in the headings of Psalms 53 and 88, both of which are set "upon Mahalath." Its exact meaning is uncertain; suggestions include a tune name, a wind instrument, or a word related to sickness or suffering fitting the psalms' somber content, but no consensus survives from antiquity.
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- Psalm 53:1
- Psalm 88:1
