חֲצֹצְרָהchătsôtsᵉrâh

clarion

Pronunciation: khats-o-tser-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2689

Meanings

1. as secular instrument (Hosea 5:8; 2 Kings 11:14; 2 Chronicles 23:13)

2. as sacred instrument (2 Kings 12:14; Psalms 98:1-200)

c. sense, and the clarions (1 Chronicles 13:8; 1 Chronicles 15:28; 1 Chronicles 16:6)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 29 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 10:2 “Make two trumpets of hammered silver for calling the community to assemble and for signaling the breaking of camp.
  • Numbers 10:8 Only the priests, Aaron’s descendants, are allowed to blow the trumpets. This is a permanent law for you, to be observed from generation to generation.
  • Numbers 10:9 “When you arrive in your own land and go to war against your enemies who attack you, sound the alarm with the trumpets. Then the Lord your God will remember you and rescue you from your enemies.
  • Numbers 10:10 Blow the trumpets in times of gladness, too, sounding them at your annual festivals and at the beginning of each month. And blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings. The trumpets will remind your God of his covenant with you. I am the Lord your God.”
  • Numbers 31:6 Then Moses sent them out, 1,000 men from each tribe, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest led them into battle. They carried along the holy objects of the sanctuary and the trumpets for sounding the charge.
  • 2 Kings 11:14 When she arrived, she saw the newly crowned king standing in his place of authority by the pillar, as was the custom at times of coronation. The commanders and trumpeters were surrounding him, and people from all over the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. When Athaliah saw all this, she tore her clothes in despair and shouted, “Treason! Treason!”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).