MEDITATION

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med-i-ta'-shun (haghuth, sichah): "Meditation" is the translation of haghuth, from haghah, "to murmur," "to have a deep tone," hence, "to meditate" ( Ps 49:3 ); of haghigh, "sighing," "moaning" ( Ps 5:1 ; see Ps 5:2 ); of higgayon, "the murmur" or dull sound of the harp, hence, meditation ( Ps 19:14 , "Let .... the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight"); of siach, "speech," "meditation" ( Ps 104:34 , "Let my meditation be sweet unto him"); of sichah, a "bowing down," "musing" ( Ps 119:97 , 99 ; /RAPC 2Es 10:5). "To meditate" is the translation of haghah ( Jos 1:8 ; Ps 1:2 ; 63:6 ; Isa 33:18 the King James Version); of suach ( Ge 24:63 ); of siach ( Ps 119:15 , 23 , etc.; Ps 143:5 , the King James Version "muse"; 1Ch 16:9 ; Ps 105:2 margin). In Apocrypha we have "to meditate" (Ecclesiasticus 14:20, "Blessed is the man that shall mediate in wisdom," the Revised Version margin "most authorities read come to an end" (teleutesei); Ecclesiasticus 39:1, "meditateth in the law of the Most High" (dianoeomai)). The lack of meditation is a great want in our modern religious life. In the New Testament, we have "to meditate" (promeletao, "to take care beforehand"), Lu 21:14 , and "meditate" (meletao, "to take care"), 1Ti 4:15 the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "be diligent"); compare Php 4:8 ; Col 3:2 . W. L. Walker