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Ecc 2:8 — I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
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| silver |
1Ki 9:14,28; 1Ki 10:10; 1Ki 14:21,22,27; 2Ch 9:11,15-21 |
| men singers |
2Sa 19:35; Ezr 2:65 |
| musical instruments, etc. |
"Heb. musical instrument and instruments. 1Ch 25:1,6; Job 21:11,12; Psa 150:3-5; Dan 3:5,7,15; Amo 6:5; The difficult words {shiddah weshiddoth} are variously rendered. The LXX. have [oinocoon kai oinochoas] ""male and female cup-bearers,"" with which the Syriac and Arabic and Parkhurst agree; Aquila, [kulikon kai kulikia] ""a cup and smaller cups;"" Jerome, {scyphos et urceolos, (Vulg. {urceos,}) ""goblets and pots;"" Targum, ""warm and cold baths;"" others, as M. Desvoeux, ""male and female captives;"" others, ""cooks and confectioners;"" others, ""a species of musical compositions,"" derived from Sido, a celebrated Phoenician woman, to whom Sanchoniatho attributes the invention of music; but others, with more probability, ""wives and concubines;"" and {siddoth} may be in this sense synonymous with the Arabic {seedat, domina, conjux} from {sada,} in {Conj. V. conjugium inivit.} Of the former, Solomon had three hundred, and of the latter, seven hundred; and if they are not mentioned here they are not mentioned at all, which " |
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