Hebrew word · H8067

שְׁמִינִית

hasheminit

Sheminith

Appears 3 times in 3 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

Sheminith

perhaps an eight-stringed musical instrument

perhaps a musical notation, i.e. an octave

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

1 Chronicles · 1
  1. 1 Chronicles 15:21 הַשְּׁמִינִ֖ית the sheminith

    And Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead the music with lyres according to Sheminith.

Psalms · 2

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