Word

נְחִילָה

nᵉchîylâh · H5155 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Thing

Meanings

  1. flutes

    Meaning unsure; probably: wood-wind instruments

    Examples

    Psalm 5:1 For the music director; for flute accompaniment. A Psalm of David.

How it’s used In 1 role

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When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
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נְחִילָה, "Nehiloth," appears in the heading of Psalm 5:1, most likely designating a wind instrument (flutes) intended to accompany the psalm, tying the word to a musical performance direction.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5155. nechilah [נְחִילָה] noun feminine meaning unknown; only; plural in phrase…
H5155. nechilah
[נְחִילָה] noun feminine meaning unknown; only; plural in phrase אֶלהַֿנְּחִילוֺת Psa 5:1 (title); most conjecture = נְחִלּוֺת √חלל = חָלִיל flute; see against this BaeEinl. xi, who thinks (compare ᵐ5 ὑπὲρ τῆς Κληρονομούσης = אֶלהַֿנֹּחֶלֶת [compare ᵑ9], Jerome [Aq Symm] pro hereditatibus = אֶלהַֿנְּחָלֹת) possibly designation of a melody.
II. נָחַל (√ of following; meaning unknown).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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