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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Hebrew word of disputed meaning, occurring in the titles of Psalms liii. and lxxxviii. (in the last of which the qualification leannoth is added): according to Gesenius, a lyre or cithara; according to others, antiphonal singing or a direction to sing in an antiphonal manner.
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“Others regard this word "mahalath" as the name simply of an old air to which the psalm was to be sung.”
“The conjecture is that mahalath is a guitar, and that leannoth has reference to the character of the psalm, and might be rendered "to humble or afflict," in which sense the root occurs in ver.”
“+ A kind of lute or guitar (mahalath), in titles to (Psalms”
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