Kithara means “harp” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2788 — charer (“parched place”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2788 κιθάρα (kithara) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kithara (kith-ar'-ah) n. 1. a lyre [of uncertain affinity] It has 30 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include harps, harp, and harping. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
kithara (kith-ar'-ah) n. 1. a lyre [of uncertain affinity] KJV: harp
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harp
Usage: κιθάρα, -ας, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for כִּנּוֹר, frequently in Psa.33:2, al.); and in (Dan.3:5, al.) for קִיתָרֹס, itself a transliteration of κίθαρις, the Homeric form of κ. (cf. CB, Dn., lviii) ;] a lyre, harp: 1Co.14:7, Rev.5:8 14:2 15:2.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kithara, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2788 (κιθάρα) appears 27 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
25 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the name of his brother was Jubal; he it was who invented the psaltery and harp.
Whereas if thou hadst told me, I would have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, and timbrels, and harp.
And the king made of the pine timber steps to the house of the Lord, and to the king’s house, and harps and lutes for the singers: and such were not seen before in the land of Judah.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
At what time and day the heathen had profaned it, even in that was it dedicated with songs, and citterns, and harps, and cymbals.
First 30 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2788.
And the name of his brother was Jubal; he it was who invented the psaltery and harp.
Whereas if thou hadst told me, I would have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, and timbrels, and harp.
And the king made of the pine timber steps to the house of the Lord, and to the king’s house, and harps and lutes for the singers: and such were not seen before in the land of Judah.
And they rejoice at the voice of a song.
But now I am their music, And they have me for a byword.
My harp also has been turned into mourning, And my song into my weeping.
Praise the Lord on the harp; Play to him on a psaltery of ten strings.
And I will go in to the altar of God, To God who gladdens my youth: I will give thanks to thee on the harp, O God, my God.
Awake, my glory; Awake, psaltery and harp: I will awake early.
I will also therefore give thanks to thee, O God, because of thy truth, on an instrument of psalmody: I will sing psalms to thee on the harp, O Holy One of Israel.
Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, The pleasant psaltery with the harp.
On a psaltery of ten strings, with a song on the harp.
Sing to the Lord with a harp, With a harp, and the voice of a psalm.
Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake early.
Begin the song with thanksgiving to the Lord; Sing praises on the harp to our God:
Praise him with the sound of a trumpet: Praise him with psaltery and harp.
For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands.
Therefore my belly shall sound as a harp for Moab, and thou hast repaired my inward parts as a wall.
Take a harp, go about, O city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.
And it shall happen to him from every side, that they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp.
at what hour ye shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and psaltery, and every kind of music, ye shall fall down and worship the golden image which King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.
And it came to pass when the nations heard the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the nations, tribes, and languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man who shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, sackbut, and psaltery, and all kinds of music,
Now then if ye be ready, whensoever ye shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and psaltery, and harmony, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the golden image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, in the same hour ye shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace; and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?
And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
At what time and day the heathen had profaned it, even in that was it dedicated with songs, and citterns, and harps, and cymbals.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2788, grouped by book.
Kithara (Strong's G2788) is a Greek word most simply glossed "harp". kithara (kith-ar'-ah) n. 1. a lyre [of uncertain affinity]
This page currently indexes 30 linked usages for Strong's G2788 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2788 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as harps, harp, and harping. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 25 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2788, with linked reader references where each row is available.