what is a timbrel?
The timbrel is used as an accompaniment to lively music, being shaken and beaten with the knuckles in time. After the passage of the Red sea, Miriam, sister of Moses, took a timbrel, and began to play and dance with the women, Exodus 15:20. The daughter of Jephthah came to meet her father with timbrels and other musical instruments, Jud 11:34. See MUSIC.