a pecussive musical instrument. Two kinds of cymbals are mentioned in (Psalms 150:5) "loud cymbals" or castagnettes , and "high-sounding cymbals." The former consisted of our small plates of brass or of some other hard metal; two plates were attached to each hand of the performer, and were struck together to produce a great noise. The latter consisted of two larger plates, on held in each hand and struck together as an accompaniment to other instruments. Cymbals were used not only in the temple but for military purposes, and also by Hebrew women as a musical accompaniment to their national dances. Both kinds of cymbals are still common in the East.

How to Conduct Ourselves at Feasts.
... "Praise Him on the clashing cymbals." He calls the tongue the cymbal of
the mouth, which resounds with the pulsation of the lips. ...
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Psalm CL.
... to understand that God is in a manner praised on the cymbal, when each ... But lest any
should understand such cymbals as sound without life, therefore I think he ...
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The Ministry.
... cymbal in the hand of David; and as David could with the cymbal make that ... and yet
when he hath done all, hang them by, as lifeless, though sounding cymbals. ...
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Argument: Octavius Attests the Fact that Men were Adopted as Gods ...
... And you behold the swallow and the cymbal of Isis, [1784] and the tomb of ... he should
be devoured; and clanging uproar [1786] is dashed out of the cymbals of the ...
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Gifts no Certain Evidence of Grace.
... of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a
tinkling cymbal. ... They leave us but as "sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.". ...
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Christian Morals. Part I.
... Be not beneficent for a name or cymbal of applause; nor exalt and just in ... within
himself; and though his tongue be fluent, is not without loud cymbals in his ...
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John Chapter i. 32, 33
... not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." Go now ... of angels,
not having charity, I should hear only sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. ...
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Or, a Brief Relation of ...
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. <. ...
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners:
The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3. <. ...
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Mr. Bunyan's Last Sermon:
The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3. <. ...
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