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# שֹׁופָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7782

**horn** — used 72 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

horn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7782/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֹׁפָר: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7782/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 27:13 horn, for blowing (Aramaic שׁיפורא √ dub.; CAdlerPAOS 1889, clxxi ff. cp. Assyrian š/sappar(u) a species of wild goat; in any case the שׁ׳ is a curved horn, as of cow or ram, cf. Dr Am 2:2 (with illustr.));—abs. שׁוֹ׳ 2 S 6:15 +, שׁ׳ Ex 19:16 +; cstr. שׁוֹפַר Lv 25:9; pl. שׁוֹפָרוֹת Ju 7:22 +, cstr. שׁוֹפְרוֹת Jos 6:4 +; sf. שׁוֹפְרֹתֵיהֶם Ju 7:8;—horn, mostly as used in war, rarely, and chiefly late, as sacred instr.: Ho 8:1; Ju 7:8, 16; Is 58:1 (sim.) Jb 39:25 (בְּדֵי שׁ׳, v. דַּי 2 a); שׁ׳ (הַ)יּוֹבְלִים Jos 6:4 rams’ horns (v. יבל), so v 6, 8, 13 (all E); קוֹל (הַ)שׁ׳ Ex 19:16, 19; 20:18 (Gi v 15), Jos 6:5, 20 (all E), Am 2:2 + 13 times; תָּקַע בַּשּׁ׳ = give a blast with the horn, Ju 3:27; 6:34; Jos 6:4 + 9 times Jos, 1 S 13:3; 1 K 1:34, 39 + 9 times, + (י׳ subj.) Zc 9:14; תָּקַע שׁ׳ Ho 5:8; Am 3:6 (vb. Niph.), Je 4:5 + 7 times, + תֹּקְעֵי הַשּׁ׳ Jos 6:9 Qr (Kt תָּֽקְעוּ) + 6 times; הַשּׁ׳ לִתְקוֹעַ Ju 7:20, בְּתֵקַע שׁ׳ ψ 150:3; also הֶעֱבִיר שׁ׳ תְּרוּעָת Lv 25:9a (H), cf. v 9b (P), יוֹם שׁ׳ וּתְרוּעָה Zp 1:16; used on religious occasions, Jos 6:4ff. Lv 25:9; Jo 2:1, 15 ψ 47:6; 81:4; 98:6; 150:3; 2 Ch 15:14.—On שׁ׳ v. AdlerThe Shophar (1894) Dr Am 2:2 HptWe ψψ Transl. 221 f. Abrahams Hast. DB trumpet.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 37 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: trumpets (16); trumpet (10); a trumpet (6).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 4:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.21/#tree)

עַד־מָתַ֖י אֶרְאֶה־נֵּ֑ס אֶשְׁמְעָ֖ה ק֥וֹל שׁוֹפָֽר׃ס

*Word for word:* until when? will.I.see a.standard will.I.hear \[the\].sound of.a.trumpet

*JPS 1917:* How long shall I see the standard, shall I hear the sound of the horn?

[Psalms 47:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.47.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.47.6/#tree)

עָלָ֣ה אֱ֭לֹהִים בִּתְרוּעָ֑ה יְ֝הֹוָ֗ה בְּק֣וֹל שׁוֹפָֽר׃

*Word for word:* he.has.gone.up God with a.shout.of.joy Yahweh with.\[the\] sound of.a.ram's.horn

*JPS 1917:* God is gone up amidst shouting, the LORD amidst the sound of the horn.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7782/): 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).