Text: [Heb.] This word occurs in Ps. lxviii. 25. "First go the sharim (singers), then follow the neginim (kinnors), in the midst are alamoth (damsels playing on the timbrels)." Gesenius and others understand th word to signify treble music, "vox clara et acuta, quasi virginum". But, on the other hand, in I Chron. xv. 20 the names of men are given as players of "nebels on alamoth". It is one of the many obscure musical terms which are met with in the Bible. It however seems to have been associated with nebels, much as the expression sheminith is with kinnors, and my therefore be supposed to refer to the pitch or method of playing on those instruments.

See Also: AZOR; NEBEL

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