Lexical Definition

‎מְנַעְנַע‎ mᵉnaʻnaʻ (men-ah-ah') castanets ^H:N-M
from ‎נוּעַ‎

cornet.

• a sistrum (so called from its rattling sound)

1) a kind of rattle
1a) a kind of rattle used as a musical instrument

See Greek: κύμβαλον

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎מְנַעֲנֵעַ‎] noun [masculine] apparently a kind of rattle, only ‎וּבִמְנַָֽעַנְעִים‎ 2Sam 6:5, in list of musical instruments; ᵐ5 κύμβαλα, but this usually (12 t.) = ‎מְצִלְתַּיִם‎; ᵑ9 sisitra; the sistrum (Gr. σεῖστρον, from σείω) was much used in Egypt; it was a small metal frame with loose metal bars carrying loose rings, borne and swung or shaken in the hand, see Wilkinson^{Anc. Kgyptians (1878), i. 497 ff.} Now^{Archaeology l. 273} Benz^{Archaeology 278} We^{Psalms Eng. Trans. p. 233}. ‎נוֺעַדְיָה‎ see ‎יעד‎.

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