Name used by the Syrian Greeks; According to Stainer, "the question at once arises – Was this an imitation of Sumponyah, a genuine Chaldaic name, or were both samponia and Soumponyah corruptions of the Greek symphonia (συμφωνία); or, to put the question in other words, did the Greeks give Greek names to Chaldee musical instruments, or did the Chaldees borrow their instruments from Greece?; As the symphonia is only mentioned in the catalogue of musical instruments given in Dan. iii. with such strange iteration, it must be presumed that the captive Jews did not highly value its merits as to wish to adopt it".