Sackbut

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Sackbut.  Daniel 3:5;  Daniel 3:7;  Daniel 3:10;  Daniel 3:15. The rendering, in the Authorized Version, of the Chaldee, sacbbeca . If this music instrument be the same as the Greek and Latin, sabbeca , the English translation is entirely wrong. The Sackbut was a wind instrument, See Music . ; the Sambuca was a triangular instrument, with strings, and played with the hand.

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

This was an instrument of music known in the court of the Chaldeans; but we do not find mention of it elsewhere. ( Daniel 3:1-30) The Hebrews had a variety of stringed and wind instruments as well as a kind of tympanum or drum. The Hebrews called it Taph. But certain it is that very little hath ever been understood, even among the Jews themselves, after their return from Babylon, concerning the instruments to which their fathers had been so partial. See Music

People's Dictionary of the Bible

Sackbut. A musical instrument. The word thus (probably erroneously) translated, Sabbeca, occurs only in Daniel.  Daniel 3:5;  Daniel 3:7;  Daniel 3:10;  Daniel 3:15. It seems really to have been a triangular instrument with four or more strings, played on with the fingers, and emitting a sharp, clear sound.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

 Daniel 3:7;  Daniel 3:10;  Daniel 3:15. (See Music .) Greek Sambukee . Not, as the English term implies, a wind instrument, but played with strings. A triangle with four strings, shrill and high in key. A foreign instrument.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

The Hebrew word sabka is judged to refer to a stringed musical instrument (not a wind instrument, as the name sackbut implies).  Daniel 3:5-15 . It was probably the same as the sambuca of the Greeks and Romans. This was a triangular harp.

King James Dictionary

SACK'BUT, n. The last syllable is the L. buxus.

A wind instrument of music a kind of trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required.

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; - said to be the same as the trombone.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

SACKBUT . See Music, etc., § 4 ( c ).

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Daniel 3:5,7,10,15

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

See Music .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Daniel 3:5

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bibliography Information McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Sackbut'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/s/sackbut.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.