sackbut

sackbut
sackbut medieval wind instrument, c.1500, from Fr. saquebute, a bass trumpet with a slide like a trombone; presumably identical with O.N.Fr. saqueboute (14c.), "a lance with an iron hook for pulling down mounted men," said to be from O.N.Fr. saquier "to pull, draw" + bouter "to thrust." In Dan. iii:5, used wrongly to translate Aramaic sabbekha, name of a stringed instrument (translated correctly in Septuagint as sambuke, and in Vulgate as sambuca, both names of stringed instruments, and probably ultimately cognate with the Aramaic word). The error began with Coverdale (1535), who evidently thought it was a wind instrument and rendered it with SHAWM (Cf. shawm); the Geneva translators, evidently following Coverdale, chose sackbut because it sounded like the original Aramaic word, and this was followed in KJV and Revised versions.

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  • Sackbut — Sack but, n. [F. saquebute, OF. saqueboute a sackbut, earlier, a sort of hook attached to the end of a lance used by foot soldiers to unhorse cavalrymen; prop. meaning, pull and push; fr. saquier, sachier, to pull, draw (perhaps originally, to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • sackbut — [sak′but΄] n. [MFr, saquebute, sackbut, earlier, hooked lance for fighting on horseback < OFr saquer, to draw, pull < VL * saccare, to pull (from a sack) < L saccus, SACK1 + OFr bouter, to push, BUTT2] 1. a medieval wind instrument,… …   English World dictionary

  • Sackbut — Vier Barockposaunen in Tenor , Alt , Tenor , und Basslage (v. l. n. r.) Zinken und Posaunen 1623 …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Sackbut — The Sackbut (var. Sacbutt; Sackbutt; Sagbutt), a brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, is the ancestor of the modern trombone. The term sackbut is usually used to differentiate the historic instrument from its modern counterpart …   Wikipedia

  • sackbut — noun Etymology: Middle French saqueboute hooked lance, sackbut, from saquer to pull + boter to push more at butt Date: 1533 the medieval and Renaissance trombone …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • sackbut — /sak but /, n. 1. a medieval form of the trombone. 2. Bible. an ancient stringed musical instrument. Dan. 3. [1495 1505; < MF saquebute, earlier saqueboute, saquebot(t)e orig., a kind of hooked lance, appar. with saque (it) pulls (see SACCADE);… …   Universalium

  • Sackbut —    (Chald. sabkha; Gr. sambuke), a Syrian stringed instrument resembling a harp (Dan. 3:5, 7, 10, 15); not the modern sackbut, which is a wind instrument …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • sackbut — noun A brass instrument from the and Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet …   Wiktionary

  • Sackbut — Early form of the trombone, so named because of its resemblance to a *saqueboute …   Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • sackbut — англ. [са/кбат] тромбон …   Словарь иностранных музыкальных терминов

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