תְּרוּעָהtᵉrûwʻâh
shout or blast of war, alarm, or joy
Pronunciation: ter-oo-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8643
Meanings
1. war-cry, alarm of war (Joshua 6:5; Joshua 6:20; Jeremiah 20:16)
2. blast, for march (Numbers 10:5; Numbers 10:6; Numbers 31:6)
3. shout of joy, with religious impulse (1 Samuel 4:5; 1 Samuel 4:6; 2 Samuel 6:15)
4. shout of joy, in general (Job 8:21)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 36 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 23:24 “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. On the first day of the appointed month in early autumn, you are to observe a day of complete rest. It will be an official day for holy assembly, a day commemorated with loud blasts of a trumpet.
- Leviticus 25:9 Then on the Day of Atonement in the fiftieth year, blow the ram’s horn loud and long throughout the land.
- Numbers 10:5 “When you sound the signal to move on, the tribes camped on the east side of the Tabernacle must break camp and move forward.
- Numbers 10:6 When you sound the signal a second time, the tribes camped on the south will follow. You must sound short blasts as the signal for moving on.
- Numbers 23:21 No misfortune is in his plan for Jacob; no trouble is in store for Israel. For the Lord their God is with them; he has been proclaimed their king.
- Numbers 29:1 “Celebrate the Festival of Trumpets each year on the first day of the appointed month in early autumn. You must call an official day for holy assembly, and you may do no ordinary work.
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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).