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1 Chronicles 13:8

13:8

David <01732> [David.]

singing <07892> [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.

stringed instruments <05035> [psalteries.]

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


1 Chronicles 15:28

15:28

brought up <05927> [brought up.]

shouting <08643> [with shouting.]

blowing <07782> [the cornet.]

Jerome on Ho 5:8 says this instrument is properly called in Greek [keratine,] from [keras <\\See definition 2768\\>,] a horn. The trumpets were, according to Josephus, made of metal, and about a cubit in length. See Note on Nu 10:2.




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