סוּמְפּוֹנְיָה (sûmĕpônĕyâ) is an Aramaic noun meaning bag-pipe. It appears 4 times in 1 book of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5481).
Root family 2887: סוּמְפֹּנְיָה sûmpōnyâ — wind instrument. This word (Dan 3:5, 15) is borrowed from the Greek symphonia (whence English “symphony”) and was long taken as a proof that Daniel was written in the Greek period after Alexander’s conquests. It is now generally recognized that since there were many earlier contacts between the Greeks and Persians, this name of a musical instrument could well be found along with the instrument at the Persian court. Cf. our Hawaiian borrowing “ukelele.” The same can be said of the three other Greek words in this section of Daniel, “harp” (qîtĕrōs), “sackbut” (śabbĕkāʾ) and “psaltery” (psantērîn). See R. K. Harrison, “Daniel,” in ZPEB, II, p. 18
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