in the Jewish antiquities, a musical instrument. This, and the Hebrew cinnor, which is generally translated cithera, lyra, or psalterium, are the same. It was made of wood, and was played on in the temple of Jerusalem. Josephus says that the cinyra of the temple had ten strings, and that it was touched with a bow. In another place he says that Solomon made a great number of them with a precious kind of metal called eleostrum; wherein he contradicts the scriptures, which inform us that Solomon's cinnors were made of wood.