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The Hebrew title of the Book of Psalms is Tehillim (תהילים). This word literally means "praises" but in Hebrew a "praise" is a synonym for a "religious song."

Note that each individual psalm in Hebrew is called a shir (שיר) which means "song" or "poem".

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