To blow
תָּקַעStrong’s H8628taqa (ta-qa)
Appears in 63 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Taqa is the Hebrew word usually translated “gave a blast”, “give a blast” and “blow”. It appears in 63 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.”
Meaning
- To blow, clap, strike, sound, thrust, give a blow, blast(Qal) · (Niphal)
How it's translated
- and they gave a blast 7
- and he gave a blast 6
- and you will give a blast 5
- blow 5
- they will give a blast 4
- give a blast on 3
- and giving blasts 2
- they fixed 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 10
- Numbers 7
- Joshua 6
- 2 Samuel 5
- Proverbs 4
- Isaiah 4
23 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 31:25Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
- Exodus 10:19And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
- Numbers 10:3And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- Numbers 10:4And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
- Numbers 10:5When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.
- Numbers 10:6When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
All 63 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
תָּקַע taqa · to blow
1) to blow, clap, strike, sound, thrust, give a blow, blast 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to thrust, drive (of weapon) 1a2) to give a blast, give a blow 1a3) to strike or clap hands 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be blown, blast (of horn) 1b2) to strike or pledge oneself
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.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.