Castanets
מְנַעֲנֵעַStrong’s H4517menana (me-na-na)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Menana is the Hebrew word usually translated “on rattles”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- A kind of rattlea kind of rattle used as a musical instrument
How it's translated
- and on rattles 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מְנַעֲנֵעַ menana · castanets
1) a kind of rattle 1a) a kind of rattle used as a musical instrument
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.