What Is Lyre in the Bible?
Object
An ancient stringed instrument, played with the fingers.
A detail
- In the Bible: David and all Israel celebrated before the Lord with harps, lyres and tambourines.
Where it appears in the Bible
2 Samuel 6:5; 1 Kings 10:12
What the Bible says
2 Samuel 6:5
But David and all Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of wood, on harps and lutes and timbrels and cornets and cymbals.
1 Kings 10:12
And the king made of the thyine trees the rails of the house of the Lord, and of the king’s house, and citterns and harps for singers: there were no such thyine trees as these brought, nor seen unto this day.)
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Cambridge Dictionary, “lyre”