Reference: Jubal

Music, son of Lamech and Adah, and a descendant of Cain. He invented the lyre, and the shepherd's pipe, Ge 4:21.

jubilee, music, Lamech's second son by Adah, of the line of Cain. He was the inventor of "the harp" (Heb kinnor, properly "lyre") and "the organ" (Heb 'ugab, properly "mouth-organ" or Pan's pipe), Ge 4:21.

Lamech's son by Adah; invented the harp and organ (pipe), i.e. stringed and wind instruments (Ge 4:21). Brother of Jabal, the beginner of pastoral life. The connection herein is implied between nomadic life and music, which can be practiced in the leisure afforded by such a life. Pan and Apollo, to whom the Greeks attributed the invention of the pipe and lyre respectively, were represented as shepherds.

A son of Lamech by Adah, and inventor of musical instruments, Ge 4:21 (Jahwist). The name prob. contains an allusion to y

Ju'bal

Son of Lamech and Adah: "he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ." Ge 4:21.

Ju'bal

(music), a son of Lamech by Adah, and the inventor of the "harp and organ."

Ge 4:21

JUBAL, a son of Lamech, the inventor of musical instruments, Ge 4:21.