Minstrel:
The Hebrew word in 2 Kings 3:15 properly signifies a player upon a stringed instruments like the harp or kinnor whatever its precise character may have been, on which David played before Saul (1 Samuel 16:16; 18:10; 19:9) and which the harlots of the great cities used to carry with them as they walked, to attract notice (Isaiah 23:16). SEE [HARP]. The "minstrels" in Matthew 9:23 were the flute‐players who were employed as professional mourners, to whom frequent allusion is made (2 Chronicles 35:25; Ecclesiastes 12:5; Jeremiah 9:17-20).
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