terua · shout, trumpet blast

What it means

terua (תְּרוּעָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shout, trumpet blast”.

A loud sound of acclamation: a blast of a trumpet or horn, a shout of joy or a battle cry.

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 glad outcry, or a festive trumpet blast.
2. A loud voice that warns of war or danger.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• acclamation ×22
• shout ×8
• war cry ×3
• alarm cry ×1
• battle cry ×1
• shouting ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×6
• Joshua×2
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×4
• Job×3
• Psalms×5
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×2
• Zephaniah×1

• Leviticus 23:24

  “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, on the first of the month, you shall have a solemn rest, a memorial with a blast of acclamation, a holy convocation.

• Leviticus 25:9

  Then you shall sound the horn of acclamation in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month; on the Day of Expiation you shall sound the horn throughout all your land.

• Numbers 10:5

  When you blow an acclamation, the camps that camp on the east side shall set out.

• Numbers 10:6

  And when you blow an acclamation the second time, the camps that camp on the south side shall set out; an acclamation they shall blow for their settings out.

• Numbers 23:21

  He has not looked on wickedness in Jacob, and he has not seen trouble in Israel. YHWH his Elohim is with him, and the acclamation of a king is among them.

• Numbers 29:1

  And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work. It shall be a day of acclamation for you.

• Numbers 31:6

  Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the army, them and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, to the army, and the holy articles and the trumpets of acclamation were in his hand.

• Joshua 6:5

  And it shall be, when they make a long blast with the horn of the ram, when you hear the sound of the horn, that all the people shall raise a great acclamation, and the wall of the city will fall in its place, and the people shall go up, each man straight ahead.”

• Joshua 6:20

  So the people raised the acclamation, and they blew the horns. And it came about, when the people heard the sound of the horn, that the people raised a great acclamation, and the wall fell in its place; and the people went up into the city, each man straight ahead, and they took the city.

• 1 Samuel 4:5

  And it happened, as the ark of the covenant of YHWH came into the camp, that all Israel shouted a great shout, and the earth was in an uproar.

• 1 Samuel 4:6

  And the Philistines heard the sound of the shout and said, “What is the sound of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?” And they learned that the ark of YHWH had come into the camp.

• 2 Samuel 6:15

  So David and all the house of Israel were bringing up the ark of YHWH with acclamation and with the sound of the horn.

• 1 Chronicles 15:28

  So all Israel were bringing up the ark of the covenant of YHWH with acclamation and with the sound of the horn, and with trumpets and with cymbals, making themselves heard with harps and lyres.

• 2 Chronicles 13:12

  And look, with us at the head is Elohim, and his priests with the trumpets of acclamation, to sound an acclamation against you. Sons of Israel, do not fight against YHWH, Elohim of your fathers, for you will not succeed.”

• 2 Chronicles 15:14

  They swore to YHWH with a loud voice, and with acclamation, and with trumpets and with shofars.

• Ezra 3:11

  And they answered one another praising and giving thanks to YHWH: “For he is good, for his loyal love is forever over Israel.” And all the people shouted with a great shout, praising YHWH, because the house of YHWH had been founded.

• Ezra 3:12

  But many of the priests and the Levites and the heads of the fathers’ houses, the elders who had seen the first house, when this house was founded before their eyes, were weeping with a loud voice, and many were raising their voice with shouting, with joy.

• Ezra 3:13

  And the people did not distinguish the sound of the shout of joy from the sound of the weeping of the people, for the people were shouting with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.

• Job 8:21

  He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with acclamation.

• Job 33:26

  He prays to Eloah, and he is pleased with him, and he sees his face with acclamation, and he restores to the mortal his righteousness.

• Job 39:25

  At every horn he says, ‘Aha!’ and from afar he smells the war, the thunder of the commanders and the acclamation.

• Psalms 27:6

  And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me, and I will sacrifice in his tent sacrifices of acclamation; I will sing and sing psalms to YHWH.

• Psalms 33:3

  Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with acclamation.

• Psalms 47:5

  Elohim has gone up with acclamation, YHWH with the sound of the horn.

• Psalms 89:15

  Happy is the people who know the acclamation; YHWH, in the light of your face they walk.

• Psalms 150:5

  Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with cymbals of acclamation.

• Jeremiah 4:19

  My insides, my insides! I writhe in pain! The walls of my heart! My heart is pounding within me; I cannot keep silent, for you have heard, my soul, the sound of the horn, the battle cry of war.

• Jeremiah 20:16

  And let that man be like the cities that YHWH overthrew and did not relent; and let him hear a cry in the morning and a war cry at the time of noon,

• Jeremiah 49:2

  Therefore, look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when I will make heard against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon the shout of war; and it will become a mound of desolation, and her daughters will be burned with fire; and Israel will possess those who possessed him, says YHWH.

• Ezekiel 21:22

  In his right hand is the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in murder, to raise the voice with a shout, to set battering rams against the gates, to heap up a siege ramp, to build a siege tower.

• Amos 1:14

  And I will kindle fire on the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour her citadels, with a war cry on the day of battle, with a tempest on the day of the whirlwind.

• Amos 2:2

  And I will send fire on Moab, and it will devour the citadels of Kerioth; and Moab will die amid the uproar, with a war cry, with the sound of the horn.

• Zephaniah 1:16

  a day of the horn and of the alarm cry against the fortified cities and against the high corners.

And 3 more times.