Kimberley Payne’s latest work, “Musical Instruments in the Bible — Learn About Musical Instruments While Exploring God’s Word,” is a charming and informative read for older children. Great care is taken to include many musical instruments mentioned in the Bible, with backgrounds on their bib...
By the time of the Hebrews, there were many types of instruments. Due to the centuries between us and them, it is hard to determine the identity of the various instruments mentioned in the Bible. However, with the etymology of the various words, pictorial sources on coins, monuments and ...
When he urges that the kinnor was a light and very portable instrument; that king David, according to the rabbinic records, used to suspend it during the night over his pillow; and that all its uses mentioned in the Bible are especially applicable to the lyre rather than to the harp-...
The 9th-century Persian geographer Ibn Khordadbeh mentioned in his lexicographical discussion of music instruments that, in the Byzantine Empire, typical instruments included the urghun (organ), shilyani (probably a type of harp or lyre), salandj (probably a bagpipe) and the lyra.[80] The ...
abbr.Bible Titus ti1 (tē) n.Music The seventh tone in the diatonic scale in solfeggio. [Alteration ofsi.] ti2 (tē) n.pl.tis A tropical ornamental shrub(Cordyline fruticosa)native to Southeast Asia and Polynesia, having a terminal tuft of long narrow leaves and panicles of white, yellow...
This is a book about: how God uses people, who are themselves in need of change, as instruments of the same kind of change in others. At the beginning, Dr. Tripp pointed directly at a phenomenon, “Our tendency toward ecclesiastical consumerism has seriously weakened the church (xii).” ...
You mentioned the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, and I remember you telling me you'd read George W. Bush's memoir. What else are you reading about these days? Well, I read a mixture of Nordic noir crime thrillers — just for a bit of light entertainment — and then weightie...
Regardingtheincessantwideningofthewealth gap, many colleaguesandIhave continuously mentioned many figures, just now and in the past. I do not think it is necessary to mention these figures again here, as I believe the Secretary is capableofrecitingthemfrom the ...
(a classic harp effect) is restricted to F, F# and Eb. All other above mentioned scales play in one key only. So, even bearing in mind that the major scale doubles as a relative minor and can also be used as the Lydian mode of its subdominant key (as we say in the trade), ...
Pendulums are mentioned both in Galileo'sDiscourses Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published 1632, and in hisDiscourses Concerning Two New Sciences. We can summarize the major points he discovered about pendulums. pendulums nearly return to their release heights ...