Michtam

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Michtam
     writing; i.e., a poem or song found in the titles of Ps. 16;
     56-60. Some translate the word "golden", i.e., precious. It is
     rendered in the LXX. by a word meaning "tablet inscription" or a
     "stelograph." The root of the word means to stamp or grave, and
     hence it is regarded as denoting a composition so precious as to


     be worthy to be engraven on a durable tablet for preservation;
     or, as others render, "a psalm precious as stamped gold," from
     the word _kethem_, "fine or stamped gold."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Michtam, golden psalm