νάβλα, ἡ,
a musical instrument of ten or (accusative to [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 7.12.3)] Refs 1st c.AD+] of twelve strings, conjecture in [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 849, cf. LXX.1Ki.10.5, +others] LXX+5th c.BC+]:—also νάβλας, α, ὁ, [[ 4th c.BC: Sopater Comicus 16, 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 44, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 10.3.17; compare ναῦλον 1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]. (Semitic word, cf. Hebrew nēbel; Phoenician, accusative to [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 4.175b.). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II uncertain meaning in accusative τὸν νάβλα, [[ “OGI” 175.9 (Egypt, 2nd c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]