Eccl 2:8

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1Kgs 9:14; 1Kgs 9:28; 1Kgs 10:10; 1Kgs 14:21; 1Kgs 14:22; 1Kgs 14:27; 2Chr 9:11; 2Chr 9:15-21

men singers.

2Sam 19:35; Ezra 2:65

musical instruments, etc. Heb. musical instrument andinstruments.

1Chr 25:1; 1Chr 25:6; Job 21:11; Job 21:12; Ps 150:3-5; Dan 3:5; Dan 3:7; Dan 3:15; Amos 6:5

The difficult words {shiddah weshiddoth} are variously rendered. The LXX. have [oinocoon kai oinochoas,] "male and female cup-bearers," with which the Syriac and Arabic and Parkhurst agree; Aquila, [kulikon kai kulikia,] "a cup and smaller cups;" Jerome, {scyphos et urceolos, (Vulg. {urceos,}) "goblets and pots;" Targum, "warm and cold baths;" others, as M. Desvoeux, "male and female captives;" others, "cooks and confectioners;" others, "a species of musical compositions," derived from Sido, a celebrated Phoenician woman, to whom Sanchoniatho attributes the invention of music; but others, with more probability, "wives and concubines;" and {siddoth} may be in this sense synonymous with the Arabic {seedat, domina, conjux} from {sada,} in {Conj. V. conjugium inivit.} Of the former, Solomon had three hundred, and of the latter, seven hundred; and if they are not mentioned here they are not mentioned at all, which is wholly unaccountable.