Shout
תְּרוּעָהStrong’s H8643teruah (te-ru-ah)
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Teruah is the Hebrew word usually translated “shout of joy”, “alarm” and “shout”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.”
Meaning
- Alarm, signal, sound of tempest, shout, shout or blast of war or alarm or joyalarm of war, war-cry, battle-cry · blast (for march) · shout of joy (with religious impulse) · shout of joy (in general)
How it's translated
- a shout of joy 5
- with a shout of joy 4
- an alarm 3
- a shout 3
- sound of a loud blast 2
- the alarm 2
- the shout 2
- shout of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 5
- Psalms 5
- Ezra 3
- Job 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Leviticus 2
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 25:9Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
- 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.
- Numbers 23:21He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
- Numbers 29:1And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
תְּרוּעָה teruah · shout
1) alarm, signal, sound of tempest, shout, shout or blast of war or alarm or joy 1a) alarm of war, war-cry, battle-cry 1b) blast (for march) 1c) shout of joy (with religious impulse) 1d) shout of joy (in general)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shout” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHOUT, verb intransitive
To utter a sudden and loud outcry, usually in joy, triumph or exultation, or to animate soldiers in an onset.
- “It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery” Exodus 32:18“When ye hear th esound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout” Joshua 6:5
All definitions and other forms of “shout”
SHOUT, noun
A loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden outcry, particularly of a multitude of men, expressing joy, triumph, exultation or animated courage. It is sometimes intended in derision.
SHOUT, verb transitive
To treat with shouts or clamor.
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.