Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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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.
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+ A kind of lute or guitar (mahalath), in titles to (Psalms
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