1 Chr 13:8

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David.

1Chr 15:10-24; 1Sam 10:5; 2Sam 6:5-23; 2Kgs 3:15; Ps 47:5; Ps 68:25-27 Ps 150:3-5

singing. Heb. songs. with harps.

The word {kinnor,} in Chaldee, {kinnora,} in Syraic, {kainoro,} in Arabic, {kinnarat,} and in Greek certainly denotes a harp, played on with the hand, according to 1 Sa 16:23.

The number of strings in the harp was at first three; but afterwards they were increased to four, and at last to seven.

1Chr 15:28; 1Chr 16:5; 1Chr 16:42; 1Chr 23:5; 1Chr 25:1-6; Dan 3:5-7; Amos 5:23; Amos 6:5

psalteries.{Naivel,} or {naibel,} in Greek, and in Latin, {nablium,} was an instrument of the harp kind; having twelve sounds.