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Lexicon :: Strong's H3658 - kinnôr

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כִּנּוֹר
Transliteration
kinnôr
Pronunciation
kin-nore'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a unused root meaning to twang
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TWOT Reference: 1004a

Strong’s Definitions

כִּנּוֹר kinnôwr, kin-nore'; from a unused root meaning to twang; a harp:—harp.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x

The KJV translates Strong's H3658 in the following manner: harp (42x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x
The KJV translates Strong's H3658 in the following manner: harp (42x).

  1. lyre, harp

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כִּנּוֹר kinnôwr, kin-nore'; from a unused root meaning to twang; a harp:—harp.
STRONGS H3658: Abbreviations
† כִּנּוֺר noun masculinePsalm 81:3 lyre (on formation compare LagBN 89, Anm.; Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כִּנָּרָא, bdb049001; Mandean (כינאר(אׅ NöM § 104 (who questions Shemitic origin); Arabic bdb049002, bdb049003; as loan-word in Hellen. Greek κινύρα (Greek Version of the LXX and Joseph.); in Egyptian kn-an-aul according to Bondi79) — absolute כ׳ Genesis 4:21 +; suffix כִּנֹּרִי Job 30:31; plural כִּנֹּרוֺת 1 Kings 10:12 +; suffix כִּנּוֺרַיִךְ Ezekiel 26:13, כִּנֹּרוֺתֵינוּ Psalm 137:2; — lyre, stringed instrument used for popular as well as sacred music (compare BenzArchaeology 273 ff. NowArchaeology i. 273 ff.); — יְעוּגָבכ׳ Genesis 4:21, בְּתֹף וּבְכ׳ Genesis 31:27; אִישׁ יֹדֵעַ מְנַגֵּן בַּכּ׳ 1 Samuel 16:16 a man skilled in playing on the lyre, compare 1 Samuel 16:23 (וִנִגֵּן בְּיָדוֺׅ); at banquets Isaiah 5:12 (+ נֶבֶל, תֹּף, חָלִיל), token of merriment Isaiah 24:8 (+ תֻּמִּים), Ezekiel 26:13, compare וַיְהִי לְאֵבֶל כִּנֹּרִ֑י וְעֻגָבִי לְקוֺל בֹּכִים Job 30:31, וְיִשְׂמְחוּ לְקוֺל עוּגָב יִשְׂאוּ כְתֹף וְכ׳ Job 21:12; carried by a loose woman Isaiah 23:16 (figurative of Tyre); in simile Isaiah 16:11 (of murmuring sound of bowels = heart, in pity); used also in praising י׳, usually as accompaniment of song (compare 1 Chronicles 15:16) נֵבֶל וְתֹף וְחָלִיל וְכ׳ 1 Samuel 10:5; Isaiah 30:32 (|| תֻּפִּים); especially before the ark 2 Samuel 6:5 (+ נְבָלִים, תֻּפִּים, etc.) || 1 Chronicles 13:8, and in sanctuary (usually + נֵבֶל, etc.) 1 Kings 10:12, but especially Chronicles, Psalms: — 1 Chronicles 13:8 (plural, and so chiefly in Chronicles), 1 Chronicles 15:16, 21, 28; 1 Chronicles 16:5; 1 Chronicles 25:1, 3, 6; 2 Chronicles 5:12; 9:11; 20:28; 29:25; Nehemiah 12:27; Psalm 33:2 (singular, and so chiefly in Psalms), Psalm 43:4; Psalm 49:5; Psalm 57:9; Psalm 71:22; Psalm 81:3; Psalm 92:4; Psalm 98:5 (twice in verse); Psalm 108:3; Psalm 147:7; Psalm 149:3; Psalm 150:3; compare כִּנֹּרוֺתֵינוּ Psalm 137:2. — Vbs. used with כ׳ are: — תָּפַשׂ Genesis 4:21, נִגֵּן בְּ 1 Samuel 16:16, מְשַׂחֵק בְּ 2 Samuel 6:5 = 1 Chronicles 13:8, מְשֹׁרֲרִים בּ 1 Chronicles 15:16, מַשְׁמִיעִים בְּ 1 Chronicles 15:28, נִבָּא בְּ 1 Chronicles 25:1, 3, הוֺדָה בְּ Psalm 33:2; Psalm 43:4, זמּר בְּ Psalm 71:22; Psalm 98:5; Psalm 147:7; Psalm 149:3, הַלֲלוּהוּ בְּ Psalm 150:3. — On ancient lyres see references in DrAmos, p. 236 f.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:21; 4:21; 4:21; 31:27

1 Samuel

10:5; 16:16; 16:16; 16:23

2 Samuel

6:5; 6:5

1 Kings

10:12; 10:12

1 Chronicles

13:8; 13:8; 13:8; 15:16; 15:16; 15:16; 15:21; 15:28; 15:28; 16:5; 25:1; 25:1; 25:3; 25:3; 25:6

2 Chronicles

5:12; 9:11; 20:28; 29:25

Nehemiah

12:27

Job

21:12; 30:31; 30:31

Psalms

33:2; 33:2; 43:4; 43:4; 49:5; 57:9; 71:22; 71:22; 81:3; 81:3; 92:4; 98:5; 98:5; 108:3; 137:2; 137:2; 147:7; 147:7; 149:3; 149:3; 150:3; 150:3

Isaiah

5:12; 16:11; 23:16; 24:8; 30:32

Ezekiel

26:13; 26:13

H3658

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Strong's Number H3658 matches the Hebrew כִּנּוֹר (kinnôr),
which occurs 42 times in 41 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:21 - And the name of his brother was Jubal; he it was who [fn]invented the psaltery and harp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:27 - Whereas if thou hadst told me, I would have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, and timbrels, and harp.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5 - And afterward thou shalt go to the hill of God, where is the encampment of the Philistines; there is Nasib the Philistine: and it shall come to pass when ye shall have entered into the city, that thou shalt meet a band of prophets coming down from the Bama; and before them will be lutes, and a drum, and a pipe, and a harp, and they [fn]shall prophesy.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:16 - Let now thy servants speak before thee, and let them seek for our lord a man skilled to play on the harp; and it shall come to pass when an evil spirit comes upon thee and he shall play on his harp, that thou shalt be well, and he shall refresh thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:23 - And it came to pass when the evil spirit was upon Saul, that David took his harp, and played with his hand: and Saul was refreshed, and it was well with him, and the evil spirit departed from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:5 - And David and the children of Israel were playing before the Lord on well-tuned instruments mightily, and with songs, and with harps, and with lutes, and with drums, and with cymbals, and with pipes.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:12 - And the king made the hewn timber into buttresses of the house of the Lord and the king's house, and lyres and harps for singers: such hewn timber had not come upon the earth, nor have been seen anywhere until this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:8 - And David and all Israel were playing before the Lord with all their might, and that together with singers, and with harps, and with lutes, with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:16 - And David said to the chiefs of the Levites, Set your brethren the singers with musical instruments, lutes, harps, and cymbals, to sound aloud with a voice of joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:21 - And Mattathias, and Eliphalu, and Makenia, and Abdedom, and Jeiel, and Ozias, with harps of Amasenith, to make a loud noise.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:28 - And all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of a horn, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, playing loudly on lutes and harps.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:5 - Asaph was the chief, and next to him Zacharias, Jeiel, Semiramoth, and Jeiel, Mattathias, Eliab, and Banæas, and Abdedom: and Jeiel sounding with musical instruments, lutes and harps, and Asaph with cymbals:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:1 - And king David and the captains of the host appointed to their services the sons of Asaph, and of Æman, and of Idithun, prophesiers with harps, and lutes, and cymbals: and their number was according to their polls serving in their ministrations.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:3 - To Idithun were reckoned the sons of Idithun, Godolias, and Suri, and Iseas, and Asabias, and Matthathias, six after their father Idithun, sounding loudly on the harp thanksgiving and praise to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:6 - All these sang hymns with their father in the house of God, with cymbals, and lutes, and harps, for the service of the house of God, near the king, and Asaph, and Idithun, and Æman.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12 - that all the singing Levites assigned to the sons of Asaph, to Æman, to Idithun, and to his sons, and to his brethren, of them that were clothed in linen garments, with cymbals and lutes and harps, were standing before the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests, blowing trumpets.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:11 - And the king made of the pine timber steps to the house of the Lord, and to the king's house, and harps and lutes for the singers: and such were not seen before in the land of Juda.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:28 - And they entered into Jerusalem with lutes and harps and trumpets, going into the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:25 - And he stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, and lutes, and harps, according to the commandment of king David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for by the commandment of the Lord the order was in the hand of the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:27 - And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep a feast of dedication and gladness with thanksgiving, and they sounded cymbals with songs, and had psalteries and harps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:12 - and they rejoice at the voice of a song.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:31 - My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:2 - (LXX 32:2) [fn]Praise the Lord on the harp; play to him on a psaltery of ten strings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 43:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 43:4 - (LXX 42:4) And I will go in to the altar of God, to God who gladdens my youth: I will give thanks to thee on the harp, O God, my God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:4 - (LXX 48:5) I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my [fn]riddle on the harp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:8 - (LXX 56:9) Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I will awake early.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:22 - (LXX 70:22) I will also therefore give thanks to thee, O God, because of thy truth, on an instrument of psalmody: I will sing psalms to thee on the harp, O Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:2 - (LXX 80:3) Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:3 - (LXX 91:4) on a psaltery of ten strings, with a song on the harp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 98:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 98:5 - (LXX 97:5) Sing to the Lord with a harp, with a harp, and the voice of a psalm.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:2 - (LXX 107:3) Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake early.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:2 - (LXX 136:2) We hung our [fn]harps on the willows in the midst of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:7 - (LXX 146:7) Begin the song with thanksgiving to the Lord; sing praises on the harp to our God:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:3 - Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises to him with timbrel and psaltery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 150:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 150:3 - Praise him with the sound of a trumpet: praise him with psaltery and harp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:12 - For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:11 - Therefore my belly shall sound as a harp for Moab, and [fn]thou hast repaired my inward parts as a wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:16 - Take a harp, go about, O city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:8 - The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:32

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:32 - And it shall happen to him from every side, that they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:13 - And he shall destroy the multitude of thy musicians, and the sound of thy psalteries shall be heard no more.
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