A handbook of Bible and church music .. . 29), and therefore was likethe Egyptian and Assyrian harp, without asoundiDg-board and a front supporting root suggests a tremulous, plaintive sound(Ges.), like Greek Kiivpa. This is the Hebrewexpression in all places, except (2) Mahalath, used only in the headings ofPss. liii and Ixxxviii, of which the root suggeststhe idea of soothing (Ges.). 2. (1) PsALTEKY. Heb. nebel; Gk. va^ka ( 728); Lat. nahlium (Ovid, A. A. iii. 327).It was a ten-stringed (Ps. xxxiii. 2), not a twelve-stringed (Joseph.) instrument, played with thefingers, in
A handbook of Bible and church music .. . 29), and therefore was likethe Egyptian and Assyrian harp, without asoundiDg-board and a front supporting root suggests a tremulous, plaintive sound(Ges.), like Greek Kiivpa. This is the Hebrewexpression in all places, except (2) Mahalath, used only in the headings ofPss. liii and Ixxxviii, of which the root suggeststhe idea of soothing (Ges.). 2. (1) PsALTEKY. Heb. nebel; Gk. va^ka ( 728); Lat. nahlium (Ovid, A. A. iii. 327).It was a ten-stringed (Ps. xxxiii. 2), not a twelve-stringed (Joseph.) instrument, played with thefingers, in the shape of a pyramid standing on D 2 52 PATEIARCHAL AND HEBREW its apex or of an inverted delta (St. Jerome).The root signifies flaccidity, and hence theoriginal meaning of the word is a bottle of shin,a pitcher, ov flash, as in Isa. xxx. 14 al.; and asthese vessels were made in the shape of a pyra-mid or cone, the term was applied to the musicalinstrument of that form: see i Sam. x. 5;I Kings X. 12. It is used frequently in the Books. HARP ON STAND, A MAN BEATING TIME, AND A PLAYER ON ATAMBOURA (OR GUITAR). (^FROM E.) of Chronicles and the Psalms, twice in Isaiahand Amos, and once in Nehemiah. Occasion-ally it is translated viol, as in Amos v. 23,vi. 5 ; and in the Prayer Book version of thePsalms lute. Probably guitar is nearer thetrue translation (D.). Psaltery is merely theAnglicized form of the Greek psalterion. Itwas played with either quill or finger, and was MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND TERMS. 53 thus the prototype of our harpsichord (G.). Itcorresponds with modern Arabian aVud (E.).From this musical instrument we apply thename Psalter to the Book of Psalms. (2) Akin to the nebel and sometimes addedto it is the ashor. Meaning ten (Gen.
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