כִּנּוֹר
kin.nor
“lyre”
Definition
a harp
from a unused root meaning to twang;
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
כִּנּוֹר appears 36 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
All these were under the direction of their fathers for the music of the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, for the service of the house of God.Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the direction of the king.
all the Levitical singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.
“Take up your harp,stroll through the city,O forgotten harlot.Make sweet melody,sing many a song,so you will be remembered.”
There on the willows we hung our harps,
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