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# תְּרוּעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8643

**shout of war** — used 36 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

shout of war [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8643/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּרוּעָה: n.f. shout or blast of war, alarm, or joy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8643/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. shout or blast of war, alarm, or joy;—ת׳ Lv 23:24 +; cstr. תְּרוּעַת Je 4:19 +;— alarm of war, war-cry, Jos 6:5, 20; Je 20:16; Ez 21:27; Am 1:14; 2:2; Zp 1:16; Jb 39:25; ת׳ מִלְחָמָה Je 4:19; 49:2; ת׳ מֶלֶךְ battle-cry of kingNu 23:21 (poem in JE). blast for march: תקע ת׳ Nu 10:5, 6(×2) (P; with חֲצֹצְרוֹת; hence) חֲצֹצְרוֹת הַתּ׳ Nu 31:6 (P) 2 Ch 13:12; on day of atonement שׁוֹפַר ת׳ Lv 25:9 (H); 1st of mo. זִכְרוֹן ת׳ 23:24 (P; בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִי בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ), יוֹם תֹ Nu 29:1 (P); gen. צִלְצְלֵי ת׳ ψ 150:5. shout of joy with religious impulse, 1 S 4:5, 6(×2); 2 S 6:15 = 1 Ch 15:28; 2 Ch 15:14; Ezr 3:11, 12, 13; קוֹל ת׳ הַשִּׂמְחָה Ezr 3:13; in public worship gen. Jb 33:26; especially + musical service ψ 33:3; 47:6; זִבְחֵי ת׳ 27:6, יֹדְעֵי ת׳ 89:16. shout of joy, in gen. Jb 8:21 (‖שְׂחוֹק).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 33 of its verses cited, 5 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a shout (8); a shout of joy (7); a shout of alarm (3).

## In the verses

[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.

[Job 8:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.21/#tree)

עַד־יְמַלֵּ֣ה שְׂח֣וֹק פִּ֑יךָ וּשְׂפָתֶ֥יךָ תְרוּעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* until he.will.fill laughter mouth your and lips your a.shout.of.joy

*JPS 1917:* Till He fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8643/): 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).