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

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