Jubilee (biblical) it was thought that the English term "Jubilee" derives from the Hebrew term "yobel" (via Latin ""), which in turn derives from "yobhel", meaning "ram"; the Jubilee year was announced by a blast on a shofar, an instrument made from a ram's horn, during that year's Yom Kippur. An alternative etymology notes that the Latin verb "iūbilō", "shout for joy," predates the Vulgate, and proposes that instead the Latin "jubilo" (meaning "shout"), as well as Middle Irish "ilach" (victory cry), New English "yowl", and Ancient Greek "iuzo" (ἰύζω: shout), derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*yu-" (shout for joy). In this
Nevel (instrument) English as psaltery or viol, and the Book of Common Prayer renders it lute.. The word "nevel" has been adopted for “harp” in modern Hebrew. Nevel (instrument) The nevel or nebel ( "nêḇel") was a stringed instrument used by the ancient Hebrew people. The Greeks translated the name as "nabla" (νάβλα, “Phoenician harp”). A number of possibilities have been proposed for what kind of instrument the "nevel" was; these include the psaltery, and the kithara, both of which are strummed instruments like the kinnor, with strings running across the sound box, like the modern guitar and zither. Most scholars believe