Kinnor (Hebrew: כִּנּוֹר ‎ kīnnōr) is an ancient Israelite musical instrument in the yoke lutes family, the first one to be mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

2022年7月3日 · Kinnor is one of the ancient musical instruments of Israeli music that is holy for the Jewish culture and used in sacred music. Also known as the Jewish Lyre, Kinnor is commonly mistranslated as a harp. Although they have similarities, lyres and harps differ in shape, size, sound, and playability.

kinnor, ancient Hebrew lyre, the musical instrument of King David. According to the Roman Jewish historian Josephus (1st century ad), it resembled the Greek kithara (i.e., having broad arms of a piece with the boxlike neck), and kinnor was translated as “kithara” in both the Greek Old Testament and the Latin Bible.

The ancient Hebrews had two stringed instruments, the "kinnor" and the "nebel" (). In the English versions of the Old Testament the former word is wrongly translated"harp." In both instruments the strings were set in vibration by the fingers, or perhaps by a little stick, the plectrum (as Josephus says).

Kinnor is an ancient Israelite musical instrument in the yoke lutes family, the first one to be mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

The importance of the kinnōr in early Jewish tradition, and royal ideology specifically, is most fully embodied by David. The Bible and Josephus offer detailed descriptions of musical organization under David (ca. 1005–965) and Solomon (ca. 965–930). [1] .

Symbolic model of King David's harp (or lyre) displayed in the City of David, Jerusalem, Israel. The earliest synagogal music was based on the same system as that used in the Temple in Jerusalem.

In addition to many unique chordophones, membranophones, and aerophones, the sistra, an idiophone or rattle﷓like instrument, appears in several Near Eastern contexts, including Israel/Palestine. This instrument served in a religious capacity as the Egyptian goddess Bastet is depicted holding the idiophone (Braun 1999: III/3-5; III/5-13).

The Bible itself, however, is well aware that its kinnōr had had a much more ancient past outside of Israel and Judah. The instrument is mentioned in Canaanite/Phoenician contexts, and among the Aramaeans of the patriarchal age.

The nevel, nebel (Hebrew: נֵבֶל nēḇel), was a stringed instrument used by the Phoenicians and the Israelites. The Greeks translated the name as nabla (νάβλα, "Phoenician harp"). [1][2][3]