Lexicon :: Strong's H5035 - neḇel

When she had weaned him, she took him with her to Shiloh, as well as a three-year-old bull,[fn] half a bushel[fn] of flour, and a clay jar of wine. Though the boy was still young,[fn] she took him to the LORD’s house at Shiloh.

“You will proceed from there until you come to the oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one bringing three goats, one bringing three loaves of bread, and one bringing a clay jar of wine.

“After that you will come to Gibeah of God where there are Philistine garrisons.[fn] When you arrive at the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place prophesying. They will be preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres.

Abigail hurried, taking two hundred loaves of bread, two clay jars of wine, five butchered sheep, a bushel[fn] of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

David and the whole house of Israel were dancing before the LORD with all kinds of fir wood instruments,[fn] lyres, harps, tambourines, sistrums,[fn] and cymbals.

When David had gone a little beyond the summit,[fn] Ziba, Mephibosheth’s servant, was right there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred clusters of raisins, one hundred bunches of summer fruit, and a clay jar of wine.

The king made the almug wood into steps for the LORD’s temple and the king’s palace and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before did such almug wood arrive, and the like has not been seen again.

David and all Israel were dancing with all their might before God with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

Then David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers and to have them raise their voices with joy accompanied by musical instruments ​— ​harps, lyres, and cymbals.

Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play harps according to Alamoth[fn]

So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouts, the sound of the ram’s horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and the playing of harps and lyres.

Asaph was the chief and Zechariah was second to him. Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel played the harps and lyres, while Asaph sounded the cymbals

David and the officers of the army also set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, who were to prophesy accompanied by lyres, harps, and cymbals. This is the list of the men who performed their service:

All these men were under their own fathers’ authority for the music in the LORD’s temple, with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of God’s temple. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the king’s authority.

the Levitical singers dressed in fine linen and carrying cymbals, harps, and lyres were standing east of the altar, and with them were 120 priests blowing trumpets. The Levitical singers were descendants of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun and their sons and relatives.

The king made the algum wood into walkways for the LORD’s temple and for the king’s palace and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had anything like them been seen in the land of Judah.

So they came into Jerusalem to the LORD’s temple with harps, lyres, and trumpets.

Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the LORD’s temple with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, Gad the king’s seer, and the prophet Nathan. For the command was from the LORD through his prophets.

At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sent for the Levites wherever they lived and brought them to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.

Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?

Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven

Praise the LORD with the lyre;

make music to him with a ten-stringed harp.

Wake up, my soul!

Wake up, harp and lyre!

I will wake up the dawn.

Therefore, I will praise you with a harp

for your faithfulness, my God;

I will sing to you with a lyre,

Holy One of Israel.

Lift up a song ​— ​play the tambourine,

the melodious lyre, and the harp.

with a ten-stringed harp[fn]

and the music of a lyre.

Wake up, harp and lyre!

I will wake up the dawn.

God, I will sing a new song to you;

I will play on a ten-stringed harp for you —

Praise him with the blast of a ram’s horn;

praise him with harp and lyre.

At their feasts they have lyre, harp,

tambourine, flute, and wine.

They do not perceive the LORD’s actions,

and they do not see the work of his hands.

“Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol,

along with the music of your harps.

Maggots are spread out under you,

and worms cover you.”

“They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s family: the descendants and the offshoots ​— ​all the small vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.

“Its collapse will be like the shattering

of a potter’s jar, crushed to pieces,

so that not even a fragment of pottery

will be found among its shattered remains —

no fragment large enough to take fire from a hearth

or scoop water from a cistern.”

“Say this to them: ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Every jar should be filled with wine.’ Then they will respond to you, ‘Don’t we know that every jar should be filled with wine? ’

Therefore look, the days are coming —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

when I will send pourers to him, who will pour him out.

They will empty his containers

and smash his jars.

Zion’s precious children —

once worth their weight in pure gold —

how they are regarded as clay jars,

the work of a potter’s hands!

Take away from me the noise of your songs!

I will not listen to the music of your harps.

They improvise songs[fn] to the sound of the harp

and invent[fn] their own musical instruments like David.