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Flute-Players

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: αὐλητής

(Strong's #834 — Noun Masculine — auletes — ow-lay-tace' )

"a flute-player" (from auleo, "to play the flute"), occurs in Matthew 9:23 (AV, "minstrel"), and Revelation 18:22 (AV, "pipers"). In the papyri writings of the time the word is chiefly associated with religious matters (Moulton and Milligan, Vocab.). Cp. MINSTREL.

Bibliography Information
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Flute-Players'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​f/flute-players.html. 1940.