Asor

Asor

The asore ( _he. עָשׂוֹר; Hebrew for "ten" "'eśer" ["ayin shin resh" עשר) was a musical instrument "of ten strings" mentioned in the Bible, about which authors are not agreed.

The word occurs only three times in the Bible, and has not been traced elsewhere. In Psalm "xxxiii. 2" the reference is to " _he. הוֹדוּ לַיהוָה בְּכִנּוֹר; בְּנֵבֶל עָשׂוֹר, זַמְּרוּ-לוֹ׃; "kinnor", "nebel" and "asor"; in Psalm "xcii. 3", to " _he. ; nebel and asor""; in Psalm "cxliv." to " _he. ; "nebel-asor".

In the English version "asor" is translated "an instrument of ten strings", with a marginal note "omit" applied to "instrument". In the Septuagint, the word being derived from a root signifying "ten", the Greek is "ἐν δεκαχορδῷ" or "ψαλτήριον δεκάχορδον", in the Vulgate "in decachordo psalterio". Each time the word asor is used it follows the word "nebel", and probably merely indicates a variant of the nebel, having ten strings instead of the customary twelve assigned to it by Josephus ("Antiquities", vii. 12. 3).

References

* Hermann Mendel and August Reissmann, "Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon", vol. i. (Berlin, 1881)
* Sir John Stainer, "The Music of the Bible", pp. 35-37
* Forkel, "Allgemeine Geschichte der Musik", Bd. i. p. 133 (Leipzig, 1788).
* Learn Hebrew http://www.learn-hebrew.co.il/ Hebrew-English Numbers(F), musical instruments

ee also

* Psaltery

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