1 | Strong's Number: g3451 | Greek: mousikos |
Minstrel:
is found in Rev 18:22, RV, "minstrels" (AV, "musicians"); inasmuch as other instrumentalists are mentioned, some word like "minstrels" is necessary to make the distinction, hence the RV; Bengel and others translate it "singers." Primarily the word denoted "devoted to the Muses" (the nine goddesses who presided over the principal departments of letters), and was used of anyone devoted to or skilled in arts and sciences, or "learned."
Minstrel:
The Hebrew word in 2 Kings 3:15 properly signifies a player upon a stringed instruments like the harp or kinnor whatever its precise character may have been, on which David played before Saul (1 Samuel 16:16; 18:10; 19:9) and which the harlots of the great cities used to carry with them as they walked, to attract notice (Isaiah 23:16). SEE [HARP]. The "minstrels" in Matthew 9:23 were the flute‐players who were employed as professional mourners, to whom frequent allusion is made (2 Chronicles 35:25; Ecclesiastes 12:5; Jeremiah 9:17-20).
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