Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stringed instrument of the ancient Hebrews, by some supposed to have resembled a harp, by others a lute. The name is differently rendered in different parts of the English version of the Bible.
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Examples
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There are many allusions in the book of Psalms and elsewhere in the Old Testament to the harp (_kinnor_), the psaltery (_nebel_), the cornet (_shophar_) and other instruments.
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Originally the Nibelungen were, as their name, which is connected with _nebel_, 'mist',
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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These, however, were familiar objects, and they received but a glance; upon the edge of the divan, close by him, a girl scarcely fifteen sat singing to the accompaniment of a nebel, which she rested upon her knee, and touched gracefully.
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In Isa. 22: 24 it is the rendering of the Hebrew nebel, which properly means a bottle or vessel of skin.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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It is impossible to say positively with what instrument the nebel of the Hebrew exactly corresponded, From the fact that nebel in Hebrew also signifies a wine-bottle or skin it has been conjectured that the term when applied to a musical instrument denotes a kind of bagpipe.
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The Hebrew nabel or nebel is so rendered in the Authorized
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The nebel is also said to have been a psaltery, but its etymology points to the Phoenician nabel, a triangular harp like a Greek delta.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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But sales growth at its U.S. restaurants continued to slow and photo: Creative Commons/Carsten. nebel
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