The Definition of the word Musician, Chief

Musician, Chief

(Heb. menatstseah), the precentor of the Levitical choir or "orchestra in the temple, mentioned in the titles of fifty-five" "psalms, and in Hab. 3:19, Revised Version. The first who held" "this office was Jeduthun (1 Chr. 16:41), and the office appears" to have been hereditary. Heman and Asaph were his two colleagues (2 Chr. 35:15).