Nével
The nevel, nebel (נֵבֶל nēḇel), was a stringed instrument used by the Phoenicians and the Israelites. The Greeks translated the name as nabla (νάβλα, "Phoenician harp"). A number of possibilities have been proposed for what kind of instrument the nevel was; these include the psaltery and the kithara, both of which are strummed instruments like the kinnor, with strings running across the sound box, like the modern guitar and zither.
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Nével
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- Nevel
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- string instrument
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Most scholars believe the nevel was a frame harp, a plucked instrument with strings rising up from its sound box. The King James Version renders the word into English as psaltery or viol, and the Book of Common Prayer renders it lute. The word nevel has been adopted for "harp" in Modern Hebrew.
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Key facts
• Name — Nevel • Classification — String instrument • Related — Lyre, Kinnor, Kithara
In the Phoenician context
In the Phoenician context
The nabla, mentioned by Athenaeus in his work "The Deipnosophists", is described as "an invention of the Phoenicians". He cites Sopater of Paphos who writes: Atheneus reports that Mystacus described the nablas as an instrument of harmony, having a lotus fixed to its long sides. The instrument produces lively music that is not soft or sweet but rather merry, similar to singing in a Bacchic style: Atheneus also copies Philemon's The Adulterer, where one of the play characters teases another character, Parmenon, for not knowing what a nablas is:
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- 1.Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 4.174
- 2.cite OED nabla
- 3.Rich, Anthony. A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities. D. Appleton & Company. 439. 1874.
- 4.Joachim Braun. Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine: Archaeological, Written, and Comparative Sources. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. 23. 2002. 978-0-8028-4477-4.
- 5.Neil, James. Everyday Life in the Holy Land. Cassel & Company, Ltd. 218. 1913.
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