chatsar (to blow)

Meaning

To sound a trumpet(Piel) players on clarions (participle) · (Hiphil) sound with clarions (participle)

How it's translated

blowing a trumpet 5
to the trumpeters 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

2 Chronicles 5
1 Chronicles 1

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

2 Chronicles 5:12Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
2 Chronicles 5:13It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
2 Chronicles 7:6And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
2 Chronicles 13:14And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
2 Chronicles 29:28And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

Hebrew dictionary

חָצַר chatsar · to blow

1) to sound a trumpet 1a) (Piel) players on clarions (participle) 1b) (Hiphil) sound with clarions (participle)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “blow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BLOW, noun

[This probably is a contracted word, and the primary sense must be, to strike, thrust, push, or throw, that is, to drive. I have not found it in the cognate dialects. If g or other palatal letter is lost, it corresponds in elements with the Latin plaga

The act of striking; more generally the stroke; a violent application of the hand, fist, or an instrument to an object.
The fatal stroke; a stroke that kills; hence, death.
An act of hostility; as, the nation which strikes the first blow Hence, to come to blows, is to engage in combat, whether by individuals, armies, fleets or nations; and when by nations, it is war.
A sudden calamity; a sudden or severe evil.

All definitions and other forms of “blow”

A single act; a sudden event; as, to gain or lose a province at a blow or by one blow
An ovum or egg deposited by a fly, on flesh or other substance, called a fly-blow.

BLOW, verb transitive

preterit tense blew; participle passive blown. [Latin flo, to blow This word probably is from the same root as bloom, blossom, blow a flower.]

To make a current of air; to move as air; as, the wind blows.
To pant; to puff; to breathe hard or quick.
To breathe; as, to blow hot and cold.
To sound with being blown, as a horn or trumpet.
To flower; to blossom; to bloom; as plants.

BLOW, verb transitive

To throw or drive a current of air upon; as, to blow the fire; also, to fan.

To drive by a current of air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.
To breathe upon, for the purpose of warming; as, to blow the fingers in a cold day.
To sound a wind instrument; as, blow the trumpet.
To spread by report.
To deposit eggs, as flies.
To form bubbles by blowing.
To swell and inflate, as veal; a practice of butchers.
To form glass into a particular shape by the breath, as in glass manufactories.
To melt tin, after being first burnt to destroy the mundic.
To inflate; to puff up; as, to blow up one with flattery.
To kindle; as, to blow up a contention.
To burst, to raise into the air, or to scatter, by the explosion of gunpowder.

BLOW, noun

A flower; a blossom. This word is in general use in the U. States, and legitimate. In the Tatler, it is used for blossoms in general, as we use blowth.

Among seamen, a gale of wind.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.