Psalms 81:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. Take a psalm - זמרה zimrah. I rather think that this was the name of a musical instrument.

Bring hither the timbrel - תף toph; some kind of drum or tom tom.

The pleasant harp - כנור kinnor. Probably a sistrum, or something like it. A Stringed instrument.

With the psaltery - נבל nebel, the nabla. The cithara, Septuagint.

Psalms 81:2

2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.