2 Samuel 6:5
And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
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Cymbals
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Psalms 150:5
Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
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מְצֵלֶת
mᵉtsêleth · mets-ay'-leth
13 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
(only dual) double tinklers, i.e. cymbals
Strong's KJV usage: cymbals.
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 13:8Strong's last: Nehemiah 12:27
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tsᵉlâtsal · tsel-aw-tsal'
3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a clatter, i.e. (abstractly) whirring (of wings); (concretely) a cricket; also a harpoon (as rattling),a cymbal (as clanging)
Strong's KJV usage: cymbal, locust, shadowing, spear.
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Strong's first: 2 Samuel 6:5Strong's last: Psalms 150:5
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H4700
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 cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
H4700
It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
H4700
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 seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
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cymbal
CYMBAL, noun [Latin , Gr.]
1. A musical instrument used by the ancients, hollow and made of brass, somewhat like a kettle-drum; but the precise form is not ascertained.
2. A mean instrument used by gypsies and vagrants, made of a steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are passed fie rings, which are touched and shifter along the triangle with an iron rod held in the left hand, while it is supported in the right by a ring, to give it free motion.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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