Bag
נֵ֫בֶלStrong’s H5035nevel (ne-vel)
Appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nevel is the Hebrew word usually translated “lyres”, “lyre” and “skin of”. It appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.”
Meaning
- A skin-bag, jar, pitcherskin-bottle, skin · jar, pitcher (earthen)
- Harp, lute, guitar, musical instrument
How it's translated
- with lyres 5
- lyres 4
- a lyre 3
- and a skin of 2
- and lyres 2
- and with lyres 2
- o lyre 2
- lyres your 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 8
- 1 Chronicles 7
- 1 Samuel 4
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Isaiah 4
- 2 Samuel 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 10:3Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
- 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 25:18Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
- 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.
- 2 Samuel 16:1And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
- 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 37 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
נֵ֫בֶל nevel · bag
1) a skin-bag, jar, pitcher 1a) skin-bottle, skin 1b) jar, pitcher (earthen)
נֵ֫בֶל nevel · harp
harp, lute, guitar, musical instrument
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.