Kinnor

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Harp

Representation of a Kinnor David at the City of David, Jerusalem
Other names	harp of David, from Hebrew kinnor Dávid
Classification	String instrument
Related instruments
Kithara, Lyre Nevel, Harp

Kinnor (Hebrew: כִּנּוֹר‎ kīnnōr) is an ancient Israelite musical instrument in the yoke lutes family, the first one to be mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

Its exact identification is unclear, but in the modern day it is generally translated as "harp" or "lyre",^[1]: 440 and associated with a type of lyre depicted in Israelite imagery, particularly the Bar Kokhba coins.^[1]: 440 It has been referred to as the "national instrument" of the Jewish people,^[2] and modern luthiers have created reproduction lyres of the kinnor based on this imagery.

The word has subsequently come to mean violin in Modern Hebrew.