/ · 1894 Brewer’s · J · Jubal [a trumpet]
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The son of Lamech and Adah. He is called the inventor of the lyre and flute (Gen. iv. 19–21).
“Then when he [Javan] heard the voice of Jubal’s lyre,
Instinctive genius caught the ethereal fire.”
Montgomery: The World Before the Flood, c. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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