Flute

Flute - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

A musical instrument, probably composed of a number of pipes, mentioned Dan. 3:5, 7, 10, 15.

In Matt. 9:23, 24, notice is taken of players on the flute, here called "minstrels" (but in R.V. "flute-players").

Flutes were in common use among the ancient Egyptians.

Flute - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

FLUTE, n. [L. flo, flatus, to blow, or L. fluta, a lamprey, with the same number of holes.]

1. A small wind instrument; a pipe with lateral holes or stops, played by blowing with the mouth, and by stopping and opening the holes with the fingers.

2. A channel in a column or pillar; a perpendicular furrow or cavity, cut along the shaft of a column or pilaster; so called from its resemblance to a flute. It is used chiefly in the Ionic order; sometimes in the Composite and Corinthian; rarely in the Doric and Tuscan. It is called also a reed.

3. A long vessel or boat, with flat ribs or floor timbers, round behind, and swelled in the middle; a different orthography of float, flota.

Armed in flute. An armed ship, with her guns of the lower tier and part of those of the upper tier removed, used as a transport, is said to be armed in flute.

FLUTE, v.i. To play on a flute.

FLUTE, v.t. To form flutes or channels in a column.

Pipe - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

(1 Sam. 10:5; 1 Kings 1:40; Isa. 5:12; 30:29). The Hebrew word halil, so rendered, means "bored through," and is the name given to various kinds of wind instruments, as the fife, flute, Pan-pipes, etc. In Amos 6:5 this word is rendered "instrument of music." This instrument is mentioned also in the New Testament (Matt. 11:17; 1 Cor. 14:7). It is still used in Palestine, and is, as in ancient times, made of different materials, as reed, copper, bronze, etc.

Pipe - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

PIPE, n. [Eng. fife.]

1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a long tube of wood or metal; as a rural pipe. The word, I believe, is not now the proper technical name of any particular instrument, but is applicable to any tubular wind instrument, and it occurs in bagpipe.

2. A long tube or hollow body; applied to the veins and arteries of the body, and to many hollow bodies, particularly such as are used for conductors of water or other fluids.

3. A tube of clay with a bowl at one end; used in smoking tobacco.

4. The organs of voice and respiration; as in windpipe.

5. The key or sound of the voice.

6. In England, a roll in the exchequer, or the exchequer itself. Hence, pipe-office is an office in which the clerk of the pipe makes out leases of crown lands, accounts of sheriffs, _c.

7. A cask containing two hogsheads or 120 gallons, used for wine; or the quantity which it contains.

8. In mining, a pipe is where the ore runs forward endwise in a hole, and does not sink downwards or in a vein.

PIPE, v.i. To play on a pipe, fife, flute or other tubular wind instrument of music.

We have piped to you, and ye have not danced. Mat 11.

1. To have a shrill sound; to whistle.

PIPE, v.t. To play on a wind instrument. 1 Cor 14.

floot.

See MUSIC.

pip.

See CANDLESTICK; LAMP; MUSIC.

Definition

In Bible times, pipes were musical instruments made of bone or wood with holes to allow the sound to come out. A flute was a kind of pipe.

• Most pipes had reeds made out of a kind of thick grass that vibrated as air was blown over it.
• A pipe without any reeds was often called a “flute.”
• A shepherd played a pipe to calm his flocks of sheep.
• Pipes and flutes were used for playing sad or joyful music.

(See also: flock, shepherd)

Bible References

• 1 Corinthians 14:7
• 1 Kings 1:38-40
• Daniel 3:3-5
• Luke 7:31-32
• Matthew 9:23
• Matthew 11:17

Word Data

• Strong’s: H4953, H5748, H2485, H2490, G08320, G08340, G08360