Dict: smith - MINSTREL

MINSTREL - M>@ - The Hebrew word in ( kjv@2Kings:3:15) properly signifies a player upon a stringed instruments like the harp or kinnor HARP, whatever its precise character may have been, on which David played before Saul, ( kjv@1Samuel:16:16 kjv@1Samuel:18:10 kjv@1Samuel:19:9 ) and which the harlots of the great cities used to carry with them as they walked, to attract notice. kjv@Isaiah:23:16) The "minstrels" in kjv@Matthew:9:23) were the flute-players who were employed as professional mourners, to whom frequent allusion is made. ( kjv@2Chronicles:35:25; kjv@Ecclesiastes:12:5; kjv@Jeremiah:9:17-20)