Trumpet
חֲצֹצְרָהStrong’s H2689chatsotserah (cha-tso-tse-rah)
Appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chatsotserah is the Hebrew word usually translated “on trumpets”, “trumpets” and “trumpets of”. It appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament.
“Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.”
Meaning
- Trumpet, clarion
How it's translated
- on trumpets 8
- with trumpets 7
- and the trumpets 4
- and with trumpets 4
- and trumpets of 2
- trumpets 2
- trumpets of 1
- a trumpet 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 10
- Numbers 5
- 1 Chronicles 5
- 2 Kings 2
- Nehemiah 2
- Ezra 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 10:8And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.
- Numbers 10:9And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
- Numbers 10:10Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
- Numbers 31:6And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
- 2 Kings 11:14And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
- 2 Kings 12:13Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:
Hebrew dictionary
חֲצֹצְרָה chatsotserah · trumpet
trumpet, clarion
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “trumpet” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TRUMP'ET, noun
- A wind instrument of music, used chiefly in war and military exercises.
- In the military style, a trumpeter.
- One who praises or propagates praise, or is the instrument or propagating it.
All definitions and other forms of “trumpet”
TRUMP'ET, verb transitive
To publish by sound of trumpet; also, to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.