[Heb. tōph, f. tāphaph to sound or beat the timbrel; app. echoic.] A Hebrew instrument of music, of the nature of a timbrel or tabret.
[1749. Thoph: see TOPHET 1.]
1864. Engel, Mus. Anc. Nat., 222. This deff may have been the toph of the Hebrews, as well as the square tambourine of the ancient Egyptians.
1879. Stainer, Music of Bible, 155. Among the instruments which the company of prophets bare … was a toph.
