Timbrel

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

(Also called TABRET, an instrument of music (in the tambourine category))

Used by Miriam

• Exodus 15:20 Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.

By Jephthah' s daughter

• Judges 11:34 And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.

Used in religious services

• 2 Samuel 6:5 David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
• 1 Chronicles 13:8 David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
• Psalm 68:25 The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.
• Psalm 81:2 Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
• Psalm 149:3 Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
• Psalm 150:4 Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.

Used in dances

• Job 21:12 singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.

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