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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Harps
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Revelation 15:2
And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
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כִּנּוֹר
kinnôwr · kin-nore'
17 times translated as this KJV form42 total Strong's occurrences
a harp
Strong's KJV usage: harp.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 6:5Strong's last: Ezekiel 26:13
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kithára · kith-ar'-ah
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a lyre
Strong's KJV usage: :--harp.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Revelation 5:8Strong's last: Revelation 15:2
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H3658
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, and with trumpets.
H3658
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, by lifting up the voice with joy.
H3658
And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.
H3658
Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
H3658
Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;
H3658
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 psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:
H3658
All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
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harp
H'ARP, noun
1. An instrument of music of the stringed kind, of a triangular figure, held upright and commonly touched with the fingers.
2. A constellation.
H'ARP, verb intransitive To play on the harp
I heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps. Revelation 14:2.
1. To dwell on, in speaking or writing; to continue sounding.
He seems
Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am--
Not what he knew I was.
2. To touch as a passion; to affect.
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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