nevel · skin bottle, jar; harp

What it means

nevel (נֶבֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “skin bottle, jar; harp”.

Skin bottle: a leather bag for keeping wine or other liquids; also a jar. The same word names a stringed instrument (the harp).

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 vessel of leather or clay in which wine was kept.
2. A stringed instrument played to accompany singing and praise.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• harps ×16
• harp ×11
• jar ×3
• jars ×3
• skin ×3
• skins ×1
• wineskins ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×7
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×8
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×1
• Amos×2

• 1 Samuel 1:24

  And she brought him up with her when she had weaned him, with three bulls, one ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the house of YHWH at Shiloh. And the boy was young.

• 1 Samuel 10:3

  Then you will go on from there farther and come to the oak of Tabor, and there three men going up to Elohim at Bethel will find you, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three round loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

• 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 25:18

  Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep ready dressed, and five seahs of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on the donkeys.

• 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.

• 2 Samuel 16:1

  David had gone on a little from the summit, and there was Ziba, the young man of Mephibosheth, to meet him, with a pair of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

• 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 15:20

  and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with harps on Alamoth;

• 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 25:6

  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 38:37

  Who can count the clouds with wisdom? And the wineskins of the heavens, who can tip them over,

• Psalms 33:2

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

• 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 108:2

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

• Psalms 144:9

  Elohim, a new song I will sing to you; on a harp of ten strings I will sing psalms to you,

• 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 14:11

  Your pride has been brought down to Sheol, the noise of your harps; beneath you worms are spread out, and grubs are your covering.

• Isaiah 22:24

  And they will hang on him all the glory of the house of his father, the descendants and the offshoots, all the small vessels, from the vessels of bowls to all the vessels of jars.

• Isaiah 30:14

  And he will break it as one breaks a potters’ jar, crushed without sparing, and there will not be found among its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to scoop water from the pool.”

• Jeremiah 13:12

  And you will say to them this word: ‘Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: Every jar will be filled with wine.’ And they will say to you: ‘Do we not know very well that every jar will be filled with wine?’

• Jeremiah 48:12

  Therefore, look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when I will send to him pourers, and they will pour him off, and his vessels they will empty, and their jars they will smash.

• Lamentations 4:2

  The sons of Zion, the precious ones, who were valued in refined gold, how they are reckoned as jars of clay, the work of the hands of a potter!

• Amos 5:23

  Take away from me the noise of your songs, and the melody of your harps I will not hear.

• Amos 6:5

  those who improvise to the sound of the harp; like David they devise for themselves instruments of song;

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