7 occurrences in 7 dictionaries

Reference: Jubal

American

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

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Easton

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.

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Fausets

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.

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Hastings

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

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Morish

Ju'bal

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

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Smith

Ju'bal

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

Ge 4:21

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Watsons

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

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