Sackbut
Bible Usage:
- sackbut used 4 times.
- First Reference: Daniel 3:5
- Last Reference: Daniel 3:15
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: Yes
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H5443 Used 4 times
(Chald. sabkha; Gr. sambuke), a Syrian stringed instrument resembling a harp (Daniel 3:5, 7, 10, 15); not the modern sackbut, which is a wind instrument.
A stringed instrument of music.
Daniel 3:5; Daniel 3:7; Daniel 3:10; Daniel 3:15
Music, Instruments of
(Daniel 3:5,7,10,15) the rendering in the Authorized Version of the Chaldee sacbbeca . If this music instrument be the same as the Greek and Latin sabbeca , the English translation is entirely wrong. The sackbut was a wind instrument [MUSIC]; the sambuca was a triangular instrument, with strings, and played with the hand.
SACK'BUT, noun [The last syllable is the Latin buxus.]
A wind instrument of music; a kind of trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required.