Flute
נְחִילָהStrong’s H5155nechilah (ne-chi-lah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Nechilah is the Hebrew word usually translated “flutes”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.”
Meaning
- Meaning uncertainmay be name of melody · may be a musical instrument · found only in title of Ps 5:1
How it's translated
- the flutes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
נְחִילָה nechilah · flute
1) meaning uncertain 1a) may be name of melody 1b) may be a musical instrument 1c) found only in title of Ps 5:1
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.