Sackbut
SACKBUT
See MUSIC.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Sackbut
is the rendering in the A.V. of the Chaldee sabbeka (written in Dan 3:5, but in Dan 3:7; Dan 3:10; Dan 3:15; thought by Gesenius, Thesaur. s.v., to be from , to weave, from the entwined strings), which the Sept. and Vulg. render by the corresponding , sambuca, which, in fact, are mere transcriptions of the Chaldee word. The English version has evidently imitated the word. The sackbut, however, is an old English name for a wind instrument (see the Bible Educator, 4, 150), but the Greek and Roman sambuca had strings (see Smith, Dict. of Class. Antiq. s.v.). Mr. Chappell says (Pop. Mus. 1, 35), The sackbut was a bass trumpet with a slide, like the modern trombone.’ It had a deep note, according to Drayton (Polyolbion, 4, 365):
The hoboy, sagbut deep, recorder, and the flute.’
The sambuca was a triangular instrument with four or more strings played with the fingers. According to Athenseus (14, 633), Masurius described it as having a shrill tone; and Euphorion, in his book on the Isthmian games, said that it was used by the Parthians and Troglodytes, and had four strings. Its invention is attributed to one Sambyx, and to Sibylla its first use (Athen. 14, 637). Juba, in the 4th book of his Theatrical History, says it was discovered in Syria, but Neanthes of Cyzicum, in the first book of the Hours, assigns it to the poet Ibycus of Rhegium (ibid. 4, 77). This last tradition is followed by Suidas, who describes the sambuca as a kind of triangular harp. That it was a foreign instrument is clear from the statement of Strabo (10, 471), who says its name is barbarous. Isidore of Seville (Origin. 3, 20) appears to regard it as a wind instrument, for he connects it with the sambucus, or elder, a kind of light wood of which pipes were made. The sambuca was early known at Rome, for Plaitus (Stich. 2, 2, 57) mentions the women who played it (sambucoe, or sambucistrioe, as they are called in Livy, 39, 6). It was a favorite among the Greeks (Polybius, 5, 37), and the Rhodian women appear to have been celebrated for their skill on this instrument (Athen. 4, 129). There was an engine called sambuca used in siege operations, which derived its name from the musical instrument, because, according to Athenaeus (14, 634), when raised it had the form of a ship and a ladder combined in one. Rawlinson (Ancient Monarchies, 3, 20) thinks that the Chaldee sabbeka was a large harp resting on the ground like that of the Egyptians. SEE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Sackbut
(Chald. sabkha; Gr. sambuke), a Syrian stringed instrument resembling a harp (Dan. 3:5, 7, 10, 15); not the modern sackbut, which is a wind instrument.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Sackbut
Dan 3:7; Dan 3:10; Dan 3:15. (See MUSIC.) Greek sambukee. Not, as the English term implies, a wind instrument, but played with strings. A triangle with four strings, shrill and high in key. A foreign instrument.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Sackbut
SACKBUT.See Music, etc., 4 (c).
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Sackbut
This was an instrument of music known in the court of the Chaldeans; but we do not find mention of it elsewhere. (Dan 3:1-30) The Hebrews had a variety of stringed and wind instruments as well as a kind of tympanum or drum. The Hebrews called it Taph. But certain it is that very little hath ever been understood, even among the Jews themselves, after their return from Babylon, concerning the instruments to which their fathers had been so partial. See Music
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Sackbut
sakbut. See MUSIC, III, 1, (f).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Sackbut
The Hebrew word sabka is judged to refer to a stringed musical instrument (not a wind instrument, as the name sackbut implies). Dan 3:5-15. It was probably the same as the sambuca of the Greeks and Romans. This was a triangular harp.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Sackbut
A stringed instrument of music.
Dan 3:5; Dan 3:7; Dan 3:10; Dan 3:15 Music, Instruments of
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Sackbut
Sackbut. A musical instrument. The word thus (probably erroneously) translated, sabbeca, occurs only in Daniel. Dan 3:5; Dan 3:7; Dan 3:10; Dan 3:15. It seems really to have been a triangular instrument with four or more strings, played on with the fingers, and emitting a sharp, clear sound.
Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible
Sackbut
Sackbut. Dan 3:5; Dan 3:7; Dan 3:10; Dan 3:15. The rendering, in the Authorized Version, of the Chaldee, sacbbeca. If this music instrument be the same as the Greek and Latin, sabbeca, the English translation is entirely wrong. The sackbut was a wind instrument, See Music.; the sambuca was a triangular instrument, with strings, and played with the hand.