For answering; i.e., in singing, occurs in the title to Ps. 88. The title "Mahalath (q.v.) Leannoth" may be rendered "concerning sickness, to be sung" i.e., perhaps, to be sung in sickness.
This word leannoth seems to point to some kind of instrument unknown (Ps. 88, title). The whole phra...
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