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Thread #77798   Message #1394484
Posted By: nutty
31-Jan-05 - 01:36 PM
Thread Name: What are jubal hounds?
Subject: RE: What are jubal hounds?
Dictionary com gives three defenitions of the word Jubal

1.
Ju·bal   

    In the Bible, a descendant of Cain who is said to have invented musical instruments.


Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.


2.
Jubal

jubilee, music, Lamech's second son by Adah, of the line of Cain. He was the inventor of "the harp" (Heb. kinnor, properly "lyre") and "the organ" (Heb. 'ugab, properly "mouth-organ" or Pan's pipe), Gen. 4:21.

Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary


3.
Jubal

Jubal, he that runs; a trumpet

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


I would consider the third definition to be an accurate description of hounds giving chase.