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psaltery |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Psaltery \Psal"ter*y\, n.; pl {Psalteries}. [OE. sautrie, OF psalterie, F. psalt['e]rion, L. psalterium psaltery, psalter, from Gr ?, fr ?. See {Psalm}, {Psalter}.] A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known Praise the Lord with harp; sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. --Ps. xxxiii 2. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: psaltery n : an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Psaltery a musical instrument, supposed to have been a kind of lyre, or a harp with twelve strings. The Hebrew word nebhel so rendered, is translated viol" in Isa. 5:12 (R.V., "lute"); 14:11. In Dan. 3:5, 7, 10, 15, the word thus rendered is Chaldaic, pesanterin which is supposed to be a word of Greek origin denoting an instrument of the harp kind
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