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ASOR (Hebr. for " ten ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 764 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASOR (Hebr. for " ten ")  , an See also:instrument " of ten strings " mentioned in the See also:Bible, about which authors are not agreed . The word occurs only three times in the Bible, and has not been traced elsewhere . In See also:Psalm xxxiii . 2 the reference is to " See also:kinnor, nebel and See also:asor "; in Psalm xcii . 3, to " nebel and asor "; in Psalm cxliv. to " nebel-asor." In the See also:English version asor is translated " an instrument of ten strings," with a marginal See also:note " omit " applied to " instrument." In the See also:Septuagint, the word being derived from a See also:root signifying " ten," the See also:Greek is iv SeuaxopScu or 1,taXT17pcov Serckopbov, in the See also:Vulgate in decachordo psalterio . Each See also:time the word asor is used it follows the word nebel (see See also:PSALTERY), and probably merely indicates a variant of the nebel, having ten strings instead of the customary twelve assigned to it by See also:Josephus (Antiquities, vii . 12 . 3) . See also Mendel and Reissmann, Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon, vol. i . (See also:Berlin, 1881); See also:Sir See also:John Stainer, The See also:Music of the Bible, pp . 35-37; See also:Forkel, Allgemeine Geschichte der Musik, Bd. i. p . 133 (See also:Leipzig, 1788) .

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