Definition

properly, instrumental music; by implication, a stringed instrument; by extension, a poem set to music; specifically, an epigram

Etymology

or נְגִינַת; (Psalm 61:title), from H5059 (נָגַן);

Where the KJV renders it

• stringed instrument
• musick
• Neginoth (plural)
• song

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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