Definition

a musical chord (as parted into strings)

Etymology

from an unused root meaning to apportion; a part; hence,

Where the KJV renders it

• in (the same) (Psalm 68:23)
• stringed instrument (Psalm 150:4)
• whereby (Psalm 45:8 (defective plural))

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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