1 Chron 17:13; 19:2(bis); 2 Chron 1:8; 6:14; 24:22 correspond to their originals (Sam–Kgs). 1 Chron 16:34, 41; 2 Chron 5:13; 6:42 (cf. Isa 55:3); 7:3; 20:21 bear a hymnic character (Ezra 3:11 too). Thus the word is at home in the narrative literature and in wisdom, but esp. in the diction of the Psa. This distribution coincides to a degree, but not entirely, with its profane and religious usages, resp. It is absent from P and subsides to a surprising degree in the Prophets. It is theologically constitutive