harp
ne.vel denotes a stringed instrument used with singing and other instruments in celebration, praise, and music-making.
The word consistently denotes a musical stringed instrument, appearing in lists of instruments for celebration, singers, and praise; the supplied verses do not require separate lexical senses.
Senses in use
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Stringed instrument in musical performance · dominant
Plural absolute forms occur in instrument lists: in 1 Chronicles 15:16 the APB renders Levite singers making joyful sound with “harps, lyres, and cymbals,” and in 2 Samuel 6:5 it renders Israel celebrating with “lyres, harps, tambourines, castanets, and cymbals.” Singular forms likewise occur in praise and music clauses; in Psalm 144:9 the APB renders making music to God “with a ten-stringed harp.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly places the term within lists containing “harps” and “lyres,” and in Psalm 144:9 renders the clause with “a ten-stringed harp.” Its varying instrument labels cannot by themselves isolate the term in every list.