Reference: Sackbut
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Easton
(Chald. sabkha; Gr. sambuke), a Syrian stringed instrument resembling a harp (Da 3:5,7,10,15); not the modern sackbut, which is a wind instrument.
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Fausets
Da 3:7,10,15. (See MUSIC.) Greek sambukee. Not, as the English term implies, a wind instrument, but played with strings. A triangle with four strings, shrill and high in key. A foreign instrument.
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Hastings
Morish
The Hebrew word sabka is judged to refer to a stringed musical instrument (not a wind instrument, as the name sackbut implies). Da 3:5-15. It was probably the same as the sambuca of the Greeks and Romans. This was a triangular harp.
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Smith
Sackbut,
the rendering in the Authorized Version of the Chaldee sacbbeca. If this music instrument be the same as the Greek and Latin sabbeca, the English translation is entirely wrong. The sackbut was a wind instrument [see MUSIC]; the sambuca was a triangular instrument, with strings, and played with the hand.
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