The Definition of the word Psaltery

Psaltery

A musical instrument, supposed to have been a kind of lyre, or a "harp with twelve strings. The Hebrew word nebhel, so rendered," "is translated "viol" in Isa. 5:12 (R.V., "lute"); 14:11. In Dan." "3:5, 7, 10, 15, the word thus rendered is Chaldaic, pesanterin," which is supposed to be a word of Greek origin denoting an instrument of the harp kind.