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Ecclesiastes 2:8

Ecclesiastes 2:8

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musical instruments: etc. Heb. musical instrument and instruments, , ; ; ; , , ; ; The difficult words shiddah weshiddoth: are variously rendered. The LXX have οινοχοον και οινοχοας:, "male and female cup-bearers," with which the Syriac and Arabic and Parkhurst agree; Aquila, κυλικον και κυλικια:, "a cup and smaller cups;" Jerome, scyphos et urceolos:, Vulgate urceos:), "goblets and pots;" Targum, "warm and cold baths;" others, as M. Desvoeux, "male and female captives;" others, "cooks and confectioners;" others, "a species of musical compositions," derived from Sido, a celebrated Phoenician woman, to whom Sanchoniatho attributes the invention of music; but others, with more probability, "wives and concubines;" and siddoth: may be in this sense synonymous with the Arabic seedat, domina, conjux: from sada:, in Conj. V. conjugium inivit:. Of the former, Solomon had three hundred, and of the latter, seven hundred; and if they are not mentioned here they are not mentioned at all, which is wholly unaccountable.

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