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See also:ASOR (Hebr. for " ten ")
, an See also:instrument " of ten strings " mentioned in the See also:Bible, about which authors are not agreed
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The word occurs only three times in the Bible, and has not been traced elsewhere
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In See also:Psalm xxxiii
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2 the reference is to " See also:kinnor, nebel and See also:asor "; in Psalm xcii
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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
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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
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12
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See also Mendel and Reissmann, Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon, vol. i
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(See also:Berlin, 1881); See also:Sir See also: (K . |
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