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Minstrel
        The Hebrew word in 2Ki 3:15 properly signifies a player upon a stringed instruments like the harp or kinnor [HARP], whatever its precise character may have been, on which David played before Saul,
        1Sa 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. Isa 23:16 The "minstrels" in Mt 9:23 were the flute-players who were employed as professional mourners, to whom frequent allusion is made. 2Ch 35:25; Ec 12:5; Jer 9:17-20


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Smith, William, Dr "Meaning and Definition for 'minstrel' in Smiths Bible Dictionary".
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