Jubal

[ joo-buhl ]

noun

1. son of Lamech and Adah: the progenitor of musicians and those who produce musical instruments. Genesis 4:21.

Jubal

/ ˈdʒuːbəl /

noun

1. Old Testament the alleged inventor of musical instruments (Genesis 4:21)

Example Sentences

I have begun a long-meditated poem, "The Legend of Jubal," but have not written more than twenty or thirty verses.

From Project Gutenberg

Holmes and Jubal Early were on their way to the imperilled left, but the dust cloud that they raised was yet distant.

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Jubal Clenk dropped on one knee in front of the little boy, and the two were inscrutably eyeing each other at close quarters.

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He now had four guns, all twelve-pounders—two howitzers, the Napoleon and a new rifle, presented to him by Jubal Early.

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But Jubal, who was born of the same mother with him, exercised himself in music;7 and invented the psaltery and the harp.

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