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# חֲצֹצְרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2689

**clarion** — used 29 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

clarion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2689/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲצֹצְרָה: n.f. clarion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2689/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. clarion (NH חֲצוֹצֶרֶת, Aramaic חֲצוֹצַרְתָּא)—mostly P and late;—abs. ח׳ Ho 5:8; pl. abs. חֲצֹצְרוֹת Nu 10:8 + 22 times; חֲצֹצְרֹת Nu 10:9, 10; cstr. id. Nu 31:6; 2 Ch 13:12; חֲצוֹצְרֹת Nu 10:2; clarion: as secular instr. Ho 5:8 (‖ שׁוֹפָר) 2 K 11:14(×2) = 2 Ch 23:13(×2). as sacred instr. 2 K 12:14, especially for use by priests (only P, ψ 98 and Chr). תקע בח׳ (of blowing a single long blast) Nu 10:3, 4, 7, 8, to gather congreg. or נשׂיא׳ together, and, on festivals, over sacrif., ‘to be remembered before י׳,’ v 10. תקע תרועה בח׳, or הריע בח׳ (of sounding alarm,—a series of quick blasts) for camps to move Nu 10:5, 6, also in battle, v 9, ‘to be remembered before י׳;’ so Nu 31:6; 2 Ch 13:12 (cf. v 14), both ח׳ התרועה. especially in Chr’s descriptions of ceremonies at festivals, to express rejoicing: 1 Ch 13:8; 15:28 (‖ קוֹל שׁוֹפָר), 16:6, 42; 2 Ch 15:14 (‖ שׁוֹפָר), 20:28; 29:26, 27; Ezr 3:10; Ne 12:35, 41, ψ 98:6 (‖ קוֹל שׁוֹפָר); הָרִים קוֹל בח׳ 2 Ch 5:13; מחצצרים בח׳ 1 Ch 15:24; 2 Ch 5:12, 13; 13:14; in 2 Ch 29:28 this pt. agrees with noun in sense, and is masc.; and the clarions (= players on the clarions) sounded.—The חֲצֹצְרָה, or (sacred) clarion, was a long, straight, slender metal tube, with flaring end, v. BenzArchäol 277; distinguished thus from the שׁוֹפָר which was originally a ram’s horn, and prob. always retained the horn-shape; the שׁוֹפָר is mentioned constantly in the earlier lit., and was used by watchmen, warriors, etc., as well as priests (v. Benzib. 276 and שׁוֹפָר).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 27 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: trumpets (26); the trumpets (2); a trumpet (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 98:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.98.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.98.6/#tree)

בַּ֭חֲצֹ֣צְרוֹת וְק֣וֹל שׁוֹפָ֑ר הָ֝רִ֗יעוּ לִפְנֵ֤י ׀ הַמֶּ֬לֶךְ יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* with trumpets and.\[the\] sound of.a.ram's.horn shout.for.joy before the king Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* With trumpets and sound of the horn shout ye before the King, the LORD.

[2 Chronicles 29:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.29.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.29.26/#tree)

וַיַּֽעַמְד֤וּ הַלְוִיִּם֙ בִּכְלֵ֣י דָוִ֔יד וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים בַּחֲצֹצְרֽוֹת׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.stood the Levites with the.instruments of.David and the priests with trumpets

*JPS 1917:* And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2689/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).