• The shalishim, mentioned only in 1 Samuel 18:6 , rendered "instruments of music" (marg. of RSV, "triangles or three-stringed instruments").

    The words in Ecclesiastes 2:8 , "musical instruments, and that of all sorts," Authorized Version, are in the Revised Version "concubines very many."

    Copyright StatementThese dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

    Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Music, Instrumental'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/m/music-instrumental.html. 1897.