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Psalm 34:3

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let us exalt his name together.

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Phil 1:19-26

'Christ will be magnified (megalynthesetai) in my body' echoes the psalmic call to magnify the LORD (LXX Ps 33:4 'megalynate ton kyrion'); Ps 34 also supplies the adjacent 'those who look to him are radiant, never put to shame.' The shared verb of magnifying and the linked shame motif give good coherence; christological transfer of God's magnification to Christ is the figural pivot.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Acts 19:13-17 ?

The outcome is that the name of the Lord Jesus is magnified; the psalmist's call to magnify the Lord and exalt his name supplies the idiom. Faint, formulaic. Contested.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 34
Psalm 34:1 2Psalm 34:8 2Psalm 34:14 10Psalm 34:15 2Psalm 34:18 4Psalm 34:19 6