* David.
# 15:10-24; 1Sa 10:5; 2Sa 6:5-23; 2Ki 3:15; Ps 47:5; 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.
# 15:28; 16:5,42; 23:5; 25:1-6; Da 3:5-7; Am 5:23; 6:5|
* psalteries.
{Naivel,} or {naibel,} in Greek [ ,] and in Latin,
{nablium,} was an instrument of the harp kind; having twelve
sounds.
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