Lyre
כִּנּוֹרStrong’s H3658kinnor (kin-nor)
Appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kinnor is the Hebrew word usually translated “harp” and “harps”. It appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament.
“And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.”
Meaning
- Lyre, harp
How it's translated
- with a harp 7
- and harp 6
- and harps 6
- and with harps 6
- harp 3
- with harps 2
- with harp 2
- a harp 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 13
- 1 Chronicles 8
- Isaiah 5
- 2 Chronicles 4
- 1 Samuel 3
- Genesis 2
11 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 31:27Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
- 1 Samuel 10:5After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
- 1 Samuel 16:16Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
- 1 Samuel 16:23And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
- 2 Samuel 6:5And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
- 1 Kings 10:12And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
All 41 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
כִּנּוֹר kinnor · lyre
lyre, harp
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lyre” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LYRE, noun
[Latin lyra.]
A stringed instrument of music, a kind of harp much used by the ancients.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.