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TIMBREL, or TABRET (the tof of the an...

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 981 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIMBREL, or TABRET (the tof of the ancient Hebrews, the dell of
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Islam, the adufe of the Moors of Spain)
  , the
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principal musical instrument of percussion of the Israelites, identical with the
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modern tambourine . The word timbrel is used in the Old Testament in both singular and plural form, so as to suggest that the former referred to a hoop of wood or metal over which was stretched a
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parchment head; while the plural was perhaps used to designate the tambourine with bells or jangles fixed at intervals in hoops . The Israelites learnt to use the timbrel during their sojourn in
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Egypt, and it has been suggested that as the Egyptians used it to scare away their evil spirit Typhon, the word tof is derived from the latter . The tabret or timbrel was a favourite instrument of the
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women, and was used with dances, as by Miriam, to accompany songs of victory, or with' the harp at banquets and processions; it was one of the
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instruments used by King David and his musicians when he danced before the Ark . It was also used in the valley of Hinnom at the sacrificial
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rites, when human victims were " passed through the fire " to Moloch . (K .

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