kinor · lyre

What it means

kinor (כִּנּוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lyre”.

A small stringed instrument.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A string instrument, like David played.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• lyre ×25
• lyres ×17

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×8
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×14
• Isaiah×5
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 4:21

  And the name of his brother was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the lyre and the pipe.

• Genesis 31:27

  Why did you secretly flee, deceive me, and not tell me? I would have sent you away with joy and with songs, with tambourine and with lyre.

• 1 Samuel 10:5

  After that you will come to Gibeah of Elohim, where are the garrisons of the Philistines; and it will happen, as you come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place, and before them harp and tambourine and flute and lyre, and they will be prophesying.

• 1 Samuel 16:16

  Please let our lord speak: your servants are before you; they will seek a man who knows how to play the lyre; and it will be, when the evil spirit of Elohim is upon you, that he will play with his hand, and it will be well with you.”

• 1 Samuel 16:23

  And it would happen, whenever the spirit of Elohim was upon Saul, that David would take the lyre and play with his hand; and there would be relief for Saul and it would be well with him, and the evil spirit would depart from him.

• 2 Samuel 6:5

  David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before YHWH with all kinds of instruments of cypress wood, with lyres, with harps, with tambourines, with sistrums, and with cymbals.

• 1 Kings 10:12

  And the king made of the almug wood railings for the house of YHWH and for the house of the king, and lyres and harps for the singers; no such almug wood has come or been seen to this day.

• 1 Chronicles 13:8

  And David and all Israel were celebrating before Elohim with all their strength, with songs and with lyres and with harps and with tambourines and with cymbals and with trumpets.

• 1 Chronicles 15:16

  David told the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers, the singers, with instruments of song, harps and lyres and cymbals, making themselves heard, lifting up the voice with joy.

• 1 Chronicles 15:21

  and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with lyres on Sheminith, to lead.

• 1 Chronicles 15:28

  So all Israel were bringing up the ark of the covenant of YHWH with acclamation and with the sound of the horn, and with trumpets and with cymbals, making themselves heard with harps and lyres.

• 1 Chronicles 16:5

  Asaph the head, and his second, Zechariah; Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with instruments of harps and with lyres; and Asaph with the cymbals, making himself heard;

• 1 Chronicles 25:1

  David and the commanders of the army set apart for the service the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The number of the workmen for their service was:

• 1 Chronicles 25:3

  Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the direction of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with the lyre in giving thanks and praising YHWH.

• 1 Chronicles 25:6

  All these were under the direction of their father in the song of the house of YHWH, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, for the service of the house of Elohim, under the direction of the king: Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

• 2 Chronicles 5:12

  and the Levites, the singers, all of them, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, clothed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, were standing east of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding the trumpets;

• 2 Chronicles 9:11

  The king made of the algum wood causeways for the house of YHWH and for the house of the king, and lyres and harps for the singers; none like them had been seen before in the land of Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 20:28

  They came to Jerusalem with harps and lyres and trumpets, to the house of YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 29:25

  He set the Levites in the house of YHWH with cymbals, with harps, and with lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the seer of the king and of Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was by the hand of YHWH through his prophets.

• 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 hold the dedication and rejoicing, with thanksgivings and with song, cymbals, harps, and with lyres.

• Job 21:12

  They raise their voice with the tambourine and lyre, and rejoice at the sound of the flute.

• Job 30:31

  And my lyre has become mourning, and my flute the voice of those who weep.

• Psalms 33:2

  Give thanks to YHWH with the lyre; with a harp of ten strings sing psalms to him.

• Psalms 43:4

  And I will come to the altar of Elohim, to El, the gladness of my jubilation, and I will give you thanks with the lyre, Elohim, my Elohim.

• Psalms 49:4

  I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will open with the lyre my riddle.

• Psalms 57:8

  Awake, my glory; awake, harp and lyre; I will awaken the dawn.

• Psalms 71:22

  I also will give you thanks with the instrument of the harp, for your truth, my Elohim; I will sing psalms to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.

• Psalms 81:2

  Raise a song and sound the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

• Psalms 92:3

  with an instrument of ten strings and with the harp, with the murmur of the lyre.

• Psalms 98:5

  Sing psalms to YHWH with the lyre, with the lyre and the voice of song.

• Psalms 108:2

  Awake, harp and lyre; I will awaken the dawn.

• Psalms 137:2

  On the willows in its midst we hung our lyres.

• Psalms 147:7

  Sing to YHWH with thanksgiving; sing psalms to our Elohim with the lyre,

• Psalms 149:3

  Let them praise his name with dancing; with tambourine and lyre let them sing psalms to him.

• Psalms 150:3

  Praise him with the blast of the horn; praise him with harp and lyre.

• Isaiah 5:12

  And there are lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts; but the deeds of YHWH they do not regard, and the work of his hands they do not see.

• Isaiah 16:11

  Therefore my insides for Moab like a lyre moan, and my inmost being for Kir-heres.

• Isaiah 23:16

  “Take a lyre, go around the city, forgotten prostitute; play well, sing many songs, so that you may be remembered.”

• Isaiah 24:8

  The rejoicing of the tambourines has ceased, the uproar of those who exult has ended, the rejoicing of the lyre has ceased.

• Isaiah 30:32

  And every passing of the appointed staff that YHWH lays upon him will be with tambourines and with lyres; and in battles of brandishing he will fight against them.

And 2 more times.