Dict: smith - MAHALATH

smith:

MAHALATH - M>@ - (stringed instrument), the daughter of Ishmael, and one of the wives of Esau. kjv@Genesis:28:9)

MAHALATH - M>@ - (stringed instrument) one of the eighteen wives of King Rehoboam, apparently his first. ( kjv@2Chronicles:11:18) only. She was her husband’s cousin, being the daughter of King David’s son Jerimoth.

MAHALATH - M>@ - the title of p, 53, and Mahalath-leannoth, the title of kjv@Psalms:88. The meaning of these words is uncertain. 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. 7.