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Nehiloth
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
or Title of Psalm 5, Gesenius explains, "upon the flutes," from chalil a "perforated instrument", chaalal ("to bore"); a direction "to the chief musician" that it was to be sung to wind instruments in the temple service; compare Psalms 87:7, "players on instruments," i.e. flute or pipe players (cholelim , Gesenius), "dancers" (Hengstenberg, from chuwl ). Hengstenberg on Psalm 5 title objects, el ("upon") is never used to introduce the instruments. The title enigmatically and poetically expresses the subject. Septuagint translated "concerning the heiress"; so Vulgate. She is the church, possessing the Lord as her "inheritance" (Psalms 16:5), or possessed by Him as "His inheritance" (Deuteronomy 32:9). The plural "upon the inheritances" marks the plurality of members in the church; or else "upon the lots," namely, the twofold inheritances, blessing from God to the righteous, misery to the wicked.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Nehiloth'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/n/nehiloth.html. 1949.
