Genesis 4:21

And his brother's name was Jubal. Player on an instrument, the musician. Cf. jobel , an onomatopoetic word signifying jubilum , a joyful sound. Cf. Greek, ο ̓ λολυ ì ζειν α ̓ λαλα ì ζειν ; Latin, ululare ; Swedish, iolen ; Dutch, ioelen ; German, juchen (Geseuius). He was the father of all such as handle the harp. The kinnor , a stringed instrument, played on by the plectrum according to Josephus ('Ant.,' 7, 12, 3), but in David's time by the hand ( 1 Samuel 16:23 ; 1 Samuel 18:10 ; 1 Samuel 19:9 ), corresponding to the modern lyre. Cf. κινυ ì ρα κιννυ ì ρα , cithara; German, knarren ; so named either from its tremulous, stridulous sound (Gesenius), or from its bent, arched form (Furst). And the organ . 'Ugabh , from a root signifying to breathe or blow (Gesenius), or to make a lovely sound (Furst); hence generally a wind instrument—tibia , ftstula , syrinx ; the shepherd's reed or bagpipe (Keil); the pipe or flute (Onkelos); the organon , i.e. an instrument composed of many pipes (Jerome). Kalisch discovers a fitness in the invention of musical instruments by the brother of a nomadic herdsman, as it is " in the happy leisure of this occupation that music is generally first exercised and appreciated." Murphy sees an indication of the easy circumstances of the line of Cain; Candlish, "an instance of the high cultivation which a people may often possess who are altogether irreligious and ungodly;" Bonar, a token of their deepening depravity—"it is to shut God out that these Cainites devise the harp and the organ."