JUBAL


JUBAL (Heb. יוּבָל), son of Lamech and Adah; mythical culture hero, inventor of "the lyre and the pipe" (Gen. 4:21) in the seventh generation after Adam.

ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY:

N. Sarna, JPS Torah Commentary Genesis (1989), 37.


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