Flute
מַשְׁרוֹקִיStrong’s H4953mashroqi (mash-ro-qi)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mashroqi is the Aramaic word usually translated “flute the”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:”
Meaning
- Pipe
How it's translated
- flute the 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 4
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Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:7In contextTherefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
- Daniel 3:10In contextThou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:
- Daniel 3:15In contextNow if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Aramaic dictionary
מַשְׁרוֹקִי mashroqi · flute
pipe
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flute” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLUTE, noun
[Latin flo, flatus, to blow, or Latin fluta, a lamprey, with the same number of holes.]
- A small wind instrument; a pipe with lateral holes or stops, played by blowing with the mouth, and by stopping and opening the holes with the fingers.
- A channel in a column or pillar; a perpendicular furrow or cavity, cut along the shaft of a column or pilaster; so called from its resemblance to a flute It is used chiefly in the Ionic order; sometimes in the Composite and Corinthian; rarely in the Doric and Tuscan.
- A long vessel or boat, with flat ribs or floor timbers, round behind, and swelled in the middle; a different orthography of float, flota.
All definitions and other forms of “flute”
FLUTE, verb intransitive
To play on a flute
FLUTE, verb transitive
To form flutes or channels in a column.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.