Bible Lexicons

συμφωνία is fully discussed by Philipps Barry in JBL xxvii. part ii. (1908), p. 99 ff. (cf. also xxiii. part ii. (1904), p. 180 ff.), with the result that both in Daniel 3:5 and Luke 15:25 it is pronounced to be the name of a musical instrument, perhaps a ";bagpipe."; For the more general sense of ";music,"; ";symphony,"; cf. P Lond 968 (iii/A.D.) (= III. p. xlix) the fragment of an account, including an entry ὑπὲρ συμφωνίας τυμπάνων, and for the word = ";a company of musicians,"; cf. P Flor II. 74.5 (A.D. 181) ὁμολογῶ πα ̣ρ ̣ειληφέναι ὑμᾶς μεθ᾽ ἧς ἔχετε συμφωνίας πάσης μουσικῶν τε καὶ ἄλλων, ὑπ ̣ουργοῦντα [ς ] . . . ἐν τῇ προκειμένῃ κώμῃ and P Oxy X. 1275.9 (iii/A.D.) ὁ ̣ προεστὼς συμφωνίας αὐλητῶν καὶ μουσικῶν, cf..12, .24.

Συμφωνία is also found in a sense apparently unknown to classical Greek = ";agreement"; in such passages as P Oxy I. 104.20 (A.D. 96) ὑπὲρ διαλύσεως καὶ συμφωνίας π ̣ε ̣ρι ̣̣ τῶν ὀφειλομένων ὑπ᾽ ἐμοῦ τῷ. . . Ἀτρῇ, P Rein 44.15 (A.D. 104) μετὰ τὸν τῆς συμφωνίας χρόνον τῆς γενομένης μεταξὺ αὐτοῦ καὶ Ἰσιδώρας, and P Tebt II. 420.9 (iii/A.D.) (δραχμὰς) κ ̄η ̄ ὐπὲρ συμφωνίας τῆς ἀβρ <ό >χω (= ου), ";28 drachmae for the agreement concerning the unirrigated land.";