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Sheminith
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary
or We find this word before two of the Psalms, (Psalms 6:1-10; Psa 12:1-8)! and it is used 1 Chronicles 15:21. And in the margin of our old Bibles, in this chapter of the Chronicles where it is said on the Sheminith to excel, it is rendered on the eighth to oversee. Hence some have supposed that it meaneth an instrument of eight strings. But this is by no means satisfactory; it is too trifling to suppose that the blessed and precious truths of the Psalms were composed for the purpose of mere musical instruments. Those Psalms beyond all doubt have an eye to Christ, and express sweet leading features of his office-character as Messiah. If therefore we suppose (and which I venture to think may be done without violence) that the blessed things contained in them refer to Christ, may we not suppose also that the Psalm itself is therefore dedicated to him? If the reader wishes to see yet farther the foundation of such probable conclusions, I refer him to Parkhurst's Lexicon, page 696, or Fenwick on Titles of the Psalms, page 18. See Musician
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Hawker, Robert D.D. Entry for 'Sheminith'. Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance and Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/pmd/s/sheminith.html. London. 1828.
