Genesis 4:21
Read Genesis 4:21 Using Other Translations
What does Genesis 4:21 mean?
And his brother's name was Jubal
This was another son of Lamech by Adah, and his name differs only
in one letter from his brother's;
he was the father of all such that handle the harp and
organ:
he was the inventor of instrumental music, both of stringed
instruments, such as were touched by the fingers, or struck with
a quill, as the "harp"; and of wind instruments, such as were
blown, as the "organ", which seems not to be the same we call so,
being a late invention; but however a pleasant instrument, as its
name signifies. Jubal is thought by some to be the same with
Apollo, to whom with the Greeks the invention of the harp is
ascribed; and some have been of opinion, that the jubilee trumpet
was so called from Jubal, ( Leviticus
25:9 ) . Sanchoniatho
F18 makes Chrysor or Vulcan, the same with Tubalcain, the brother of Jubal, to exercise himself in eloquence, songs and divination, confounding or mistaking the employment of the two brothers. The Arabs have such a notion of the Cainites being the inventors of music, that they commonly call a singing girl "Cainah" F19; and the Arabic writers
F20 make Jubal to be the first inventor of music, and that the beasts and birds gathered together to hear him; the same that is said of Orpheus.
F18 Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 1. p.
35.
F19 Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. p. 9.
F20 Elmacinus, p. 8. apud Hottinger.
Smegma, p. 232.
