Definition of "kinnor" []

• An ancient Hebrew instrument, probably of the zither or lyre class, but possibly a harp: translated ‘harp’ in the English Bible. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Some think the word kinnor denotes the whole class of stringed instruments."
• "The name kinnor is said to have been Phoenician, a fact which points to this as the source of its derivation."
• "Many of the different names of musical instruments in the common version of the Scriptures are merely blunders of the Septuagint translators, who rendered the word kinnor by about six different terms, where no distinction had been originally intended by the sacred writers."