Occurrences
Kinnôwr occurs 40 times in 39 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), 1 Samuel (2), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (8), 2 Chronicles (4), Nehemiah (1), Job (2), Psalms (13), Isaiah (4), Ezekiel (1)
- Genesis 4:21 — And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp (כִּנּ֖וֹר) and organ.
- Genesis 31:27 — Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp (וּבְכִנּֽוֹר)?
- 1 Samuel 10:5 — After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp (וְכִנּ֔וֹר), before them; and they shall prophesy:
- 1 Samuel 16:16 — Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp (בַּכִּנּ֑וֹר): and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
- 2 Samuel 6:5 — And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps (וּבְכִנֹּר֤וֹת), and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
- 1 Kings 10:12 — And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king’s house, harps (וְכִנֹּר֥וֹת) also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
- 1 Chronicles 13:8 — And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps (וּבְכִנֹּרוֹת֙), and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
- 1 Chronicles 15:16 — And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps (וְכִנֹּר֖וֹת) and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
- 1 Chronicles 15:21 — And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps (בְּכִנֹּר֥וֹת) on the Sheminith to excel.
- 1 Chronicles 15:28 — Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps (וְכִנֹּרֽוֹת).
- 1 Chronicles 16:5 — Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps (וּבְכִנֹּר֔וֹת); but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;
- 1 Chronicles 25:1 — Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps (בְּכִנֹּר֥וֹת), with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:
- 1 Chronicles 25:3 — Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp (בַּכִּנּ֔וֹר), to give thanks and to praise the LORD.
- 1 Chronicles 25:6 — All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps (וְכִנֹּר֔וֹת), for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
- 2 Chronicles 5:12 — Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps (וְכִנֹּר֔וֹת), stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
- 2 Chronicles 9:11 — And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king’s palace, and harps (וְכִנֹּר֥וֹת) and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 20:28 — And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps (וּבְכִנֹּר֖וֹת) and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 29:25 — And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps (וּבְכִנֹּר֔וֹת), according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
- Nehemiah 12:27 — And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps (וּבְכִנֹּרֽוֹת).
- Job 21:12 — They take the timbrel and harp (וְכִנּ֑וֹר), and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
- Job 30:31 — My harp (כִּנֹּרִ֑י) also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
- Psalms 33:2 — Praise the LORD with harp (בְּכִנּ֑וֹר): sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
- Psalms 43:4 — Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp (בְכִנּ֗וֹר) will I praise thee, O God my God.
- Psalms 49:4 — I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp (בְּ֝כִנּ֗וֹר).
- Psalms 57:8 — Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp (וְכִנּ֗וֹר): I myself will awake early.
- Psalms 71:22 — I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp (בְכִנּ֑וֹר), O thou Holy One of Israel.
- Psalms 81:2 — Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp (כִּנּ֖וֹר) with the psaltery.
- Psalms 92:3 — Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp (בְּכִנּֽוֹר) with a solemn sound.
- Psalms 98:5 — Sing unto the LORD with the harp (בְּכִנּ֑וֹר); with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
- Psalms 98:5 — Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp (בְּ֝כִנּ֗וֹר), and the voice of a psalm.
- Psalms 108:2 — Awake, psaltery and harp (וְכִנּ֗וֹר): I myself will awake early.
- Psalms 137:2 — We hanged our harps (כִּנֹּרוֹתֵֽינוּ) upon the willows in the midst thereof.
- Psalms 147:7 — Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp (בְכִנּֽוֹר) unto our God:
- Psalms 149:3 — Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp (וְ֝כִנּ֗וֹר).
- Psalms 150:3 — Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp (וְכִנּֽוֹר).
- Isaiah 5:12 — And the harp (כִנּ֜וֹר), and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
- Isaiah 16:11 — Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp (כַּכִּנּ֖וֹר) for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.
- Isaiah 24:8 — The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp (כִּנּֽוֹר) ceaseth.
- Isaiah 30:32 — And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps (וּבְכִנֹּר֑וֹת): and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
- Ezekiel 26:13 — And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps (כִּנּוֹרַ֔יִךְ) shall be no more heard.