in Jewish Antiquity, a musical instrument of the lyre kind. This and the Hebrew kinnor, which is generally translated cithara or lyra, are probably the same. It was usually made of wood. Josephus says that the cinyra of the temple had ten strings, and was played with a plectrum; and in another place he mentions some made of a mixed metal called electrum. (Antiq. vii. 12-3.)