Reference: Organ
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Ps 150:4, a wind instrument apparently composed of several pipes. It cannot, however, mean the modern organ, which was unknown to the ancients; but refers probably to the ancient syrinx, or pipes, similar to the Pandean pipes, a series of seven or more tubes of unequal length and size, closed at one end, and blown into with the mouth at the other, Ge 4:21; Job 21:12. See MUSIC.
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Easton
some kind of wind instrument, probably a kind of Pan's pipes (Ge 4:21; Job 21:12; Ps 150:4), which consisted of seven or eight reeds of unequal length.
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Fausets
uwgab from agab "to blow." (See MUSIC.) A wind instrument, a perforated pipe. Pandean pipe or syrinx (still a pastoral instrument in Syria) as distinguished from the HARP, stringed instruments (Ge 4:21; Job 21:12; 30:31; Ps 150:4).
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Morish
uggab, ugab. A wind musical instrument, of either one or several pipes. The Egyptian monuments show a double pipe, with holes as in a flute: several pipes of different lengths were also joined together. Ge 4:21; Job 21:12; Job 30: 31; Ps 150:4. The syrinx, or Pan's pipe, is still used in Syria, and sometimes has as many as twenty-three pipes.
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Smith
Organ.
Ge 4:21; Job 21:12; 30:31; Ps 150:4
The Hebrew word thus rendered probably denotes a pipe or perforated wind-instrument. In
it appears to be a general term for all wind-instruments. In
are enumerated three kinds of musical instruments which are possible under the general terms of the timbrel harp and oryan. Some identify it with the pandean pipe or syrinx an instrument of unquestionably ancient origin, and common in the East. [See Music]