Neginoth
NEGINOTH
Hab 3:19, a general name for Hebrew stringed instruments, Psa 4:1-8 6:1-10 54:1-55:23 76:1-12, are addressed to the leader of the music on that class of instruments.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Neginoth
( , neginoth’ songs with instrumental accompaniment, SEE NEGINAH; Sept. ; Vulg. hymni) is found in the titles of Psalms 4, 6, 54, 55, 67, 76, and the margin of Hab 3:19 (text “stringed instruments”), and there seems but little doubt that it is the general term denoting all stringed instruments whatsoever, whether played with the hand, like the harp and guitar, or with a plectrum. It thus includes all those instruments which in the A.V. are denoted by the special terms “harp,” “psaltery” or “viol,” “sackbut,” as well as by the general descriptions “stringed instruments” (Psa 150:4), “instruments of music” (1Sa 18:6), or, as the margin gives it, “three-stringed instruments,” and the “instrument of ten strings” (Psa 33:2; Psa 92:3; Psa 144:9). “The chief musician on Neginoth” was therefore the conductor of that portion of the Temple choir who played upon the stringed instruments, and who are mentioned in Psa 68:25 (, nogenim). The root ( = – ) from which the word is derived occurs in 1Sa 16:16-18; 1Sa 16:23; 1Sa 18:10; 1Sa 19:9; Isa 38:20, and a comparison of these passages confirms what has been said with regard to its meaning. The author of the Shilte Haggibborimn, quoted by Kircher (Musurgia, 1:4, page 48), describes the Neginoth as instruments of wood, long and round, pierced with several apertures, and having three strings of gut stretched across them, which were played with a bow of horsehair. It is extremely doubtful, however, whether the Hebrews were acquainted with anything so closely resembling the modern violin. SEE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; SEE PSALMS.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Neginoth
i.e., songs with instrumental accompaniment, found in the titles of Ps. 4; 6; 54; 55; 67; 76; rendered “stringed instruments,” Hab. 3:19, A.V. It denotes all kinds of stringed instruments, as the “harp,” “psaltery,” “viol,” etc. The “chief musician on Neginoth” is the leader of that part of the temple choir which played on stringed instruments.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Neginoth
A title to many of the Psalms.
See Musician
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Neginoth
H5058
See Music
Music
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Neginoth
Neginoth. See Neginah.