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
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:)
H3658
And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
H3658
And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
H3658
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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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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