Jubal

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

Music, son of Lamech and Adah, and a descendant of Cain. He invented the lyre, and the shepherd's pipe, Genesis 4:21 .

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Genesis 4:21

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Lamech's son by Adah; invented the harp and organ (pipe), i.e. stringed and wind instruments (Genesis 4:21). Brother of Jabal, the beginner of pastoral life. The connection herein is implied between nomadic life and music, which can be practiced in the leisure afforded by such a life. Pan and Apollo, to whom the Greeks attributed the invention of the pipe and lyre respectively, were represented as shepherds.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Genesis 4:19-21

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

JABAL and JUBAL

The sons of Lamech and Adah. (See Genesis 4:20-21) The former was the father of those who lodge in tents, and the latter of those who handle the pipe or organ; by which is meant, that these men were the first inventors of those things. The name of both is one and the same meaning, like the Jobel or trumpet, somewhat that like sound glides away, and is lost in the air.

JUBAL

The son of Lamech, (Genesis 4:21) He invented instruments of music. His name is from Jobel, he that produceth.

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Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

JUBAL. A son of Lamech by Adah, and inventor of musical instruments, Genesis 4:21 (J [Note: Jahwist.] ). The name prob. contains an allusion to yôbçl , ‘ram’s horn.’

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Son of Lamech and Adah: "he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ." Genesis 4:21 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ju'bal. (music). A son of Lamech by Adah, and the inventor of the "harp and organ." Genesis 4:21.

Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

a son of Lamech, the inventor of musical instruments, Genesis 4:21 .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

jōō´bal ( יוּבל , yūbhāl  ; for meaning see Jabal ): Son of Lamech by Adah, and inventor of musical instruments (Genesis 4:21 ).

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Ju´bal (music); one of Cain's descendants, son of Lamech and Adar. He is described as the inventor of the kinnor, and the ugab, rendered in our version 'the harp and the organ,' but perhaps more properly 'the lyre and mouth-organ,' or Pandean pipe [MUSIC].

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Yubal', יוּבָל, prob. for יוּבֶל, jubilee, i.e. music Sept. Ι᾿ουβάλ ), Lamech's second son by Adah, of the line of Cain; described as the inventor of the כּנּור, kinnor, and the עוּגָב , ugab, rendered in our version "the harp and the organ," but perhaps more properly "the lyre and mouth-organ," or Pandaean pipe (Genesis 4:21). See Music. B.C. prob. cir. 3490. According to Josephus (Ι᾿ούβαλος, Ant. 1, 2, 2), "he cultivated music, and invented the psaltery and cithara." Some have compared him with the Apollo of heathen mythology (Hasse's Entdeck. 2, 37; comp. Euseb. Proep. Evang. 10, 6; Diod. Sic. 1, 20; Buttmann, Mythol. 1, 164; Kalisch, Commentary, ad loc.).