Words the Bible translates as musical instruments

English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.

shalishשָׁלִישׁa top-ranking officer: a soldier of the highest grade, serving with a king's chariot force or at the king's own side.
+2 more meanings
- a third: a measuring vessel holding a third of some larger unit, used for scooping out dry goods or drink.
- a musical instrument played in a victory celebration; which instrument it was is not known.
shiddahשִׁדָּהthe last item in a king's list of everything he collected for his own pleasure, and a word whose meaning is genuinely lost: most likely chests of treasure, possibly women of a harem.

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