Psaltery
noun, plural psalteries.
1.
an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
2.
(initial capital letter) the Psalter.
noun (pl) -teries
1.
(music) an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre, but having a trapezoidal sounding board over which the strings are stretched
a musical instrument, supposed to have been a kind of lyre, or a harp with twelve strings. The Hebrew word nebhel, so rendered, is translated “viol” in Isa. 5:12 (R.V., “lute”); 14:11. In Dan. 3:5, 7, 10, 15, the word thus rendered is Chaldaic, pesanterin, which is supposed to be a word of Greek origin denoting an instrument of the harp kind.
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