כִּנּוֹר kinnor

Hebrew word for “lyre” · Strong’s H3658 · used 42 times in 41 verses

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Meaning

lyre, harp

How it is translated

Glosses given for kinnor in context, with how often each is used:

• harp 24
• harps 17
• like harp 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Chronicles 15 (3), 1 Chronicles 25 (3), 1 Samuel 16 (2), Genesis 4 (1), Genesis 31 (1), 1 Samuel 10 (1), 2 Samuel 6 (1), 1 Kings 10 (1), 1 Chronicles 13 (1), 1 Chronicles 16 (1)

Forms

• בכנור 10
• ובכנרות 7
• וכנור 6
• וכנרות 6
• כנור 5
• בכנרות 2
• ובכנור 1
• הכנור 1
• כנרי 1
• כנרותינו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kinnor more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• נֵבֶל nevel “harp” 22
• תֹּף toph “tambourine” 10
• מְצִלְתַּיִם metselet “cymbal” 9
• שִׁיר shir “song” 7
• זָמַר zamar “to sing” 5
• יְדוּתוּן yedutun “Jeduthun” 4
• חֲצֹצְרָה chatsotserah “trumpet” 4
• עוּגָב ugav “pipe” 3
• אָסָף asaph “Asaph” 4
• מַתִּתְיָהוּ mattityah “Mattithiah” 3
• קוֹל qol “voice” 6
• שִׁיר shir “to sing” 4

Key verses

The verses using kinnor that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Samuel 10:5 — After 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,…
• 1 Chronicles 13:8 — And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals,…
• 1 Chronicles 15:16 — And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding,…
• 1 Chronicles 25:1 — Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with…
• 2 Chronicles 5:12 — Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having…
• 2 Chronicles 29:25 — And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s…
• Nehemiah 12:27 — And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with…
• Psalms 43:4 — Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
• Psalms 71:22 — I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
• Psalms 149:3 — Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
• Psalms 150:3 — Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
• Isaiah 5:12 — And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.