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KINNOR (Gr. tctvitpa)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 823 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KINNOR (Gr. tctvitpa) , the See also:Hebrew name for an See also:ancient stringed See also:instrument, the first mentioned in the See also:Bible (Gen. iv. 21), where it is now always translated " See also:harp." The See also:identification of the instrument has been much discussed, but, from the stand-point of the See also:history of musical See also:instruments, the See also:weight of See also:evidence is in favour of the view that the Semitic kinnor is the See also:Greek See also:cithara (q.v.). This instrument was already in use before 2000 B.C. among the Semitic races and in a higher See also:state of development than it ever attained in See also:Greece during the best classic See also:period. It is unlikely that an instrument (which also appears on Hebrew coins) so widely known and used in various parts of See also:Asia See also:Minor in remote times, and occur'See also:ing among the Hittite sculptures, should pass unmentioned in the Bible, with the exception of the verses in See also:Dan. iii.

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