salpinx · trumpet

What it means

salpinx (σάλπιγξ) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “trumpet”.

Also the sound of a trumpet.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A wind instrument with a loud sound, used to call, warn or announce.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• trumpet ×9
• trumpets ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• Hebrews×1
• Revelation×6

• Matthew 24:31

  And he will send out his angels with a great trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

• 1 Corinthians 14:8

  And indeed, if a trumpet gives an unclear sound, who will prepare himself for battle?

• 1 Corinthians 15:52

  in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:16

  For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in the Messiah will rise first;

• Hebrews 12:19

  and to the sound of a trumpet and to a voice of words, which those who heard begged that no word be added to them,

• Revelation 1:10

  I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like that of a trumpet,

• Revelation 4:1

  After these things I looked, and look, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice, which I had heard speaking with me like a trumpet, was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.”

• Revelation 8:2

  And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

• Revelation 8:6

  And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to blow them.

• Revelation 8:13

  And I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in midheaven saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to those who live on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to blow!”

• Revelation 9:14

  saying to the sixth angel, the one who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”