שׁוֹפָרshôwphâr

horn, for blowing, mostly as used in war, rarely, and chiefly late, as sacred instrument (Isaiah 27:13; Amos 2:2; 2 Samuel 6:15; Exodus 19:16; Leviticus 25:9)

Pronunciation: sho-far' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7782

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Where it appears

Appears 72 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 19:16 On the morning of the third day, thunder roared and lightning flashed, and a dense cloud came down on the mountain. There was a long, loud blast from a ram’s horn, and all the people trembled.
  • Exodus 19:19 As the blast of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God thundered his reply.
  • Exodus 20:18 When the people heard the thunder and the loud blast of the ram’s horn, and when they saw the flashes of lightning and the smoke billowing from the mountain, they stood at a distance, trembling with fear.
  • Leviticus 25:9 Then on the Day of Atonement in the fiftieth year, blow the ram’s horn loud and long throughout the land.
  • Joshua 6:4 Seven priests will walk ahead of the Ark, each carrying a ram’s horn. On the seventh day you are to march around the town seven times, with the priests blowing the horns.
  • Joshua 6:5 When you hear the priests give one long blast on the rams’ horns, have all the people shout as loud as they can. Then the walls of the town will collapse, and the people can charge straight into the town.”
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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).