σάλπιγξ

salpinx · trumpet

Greek word · Strong’s number G4536 · appears 11 times in the Bible

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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

sal·pinx

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 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.”