חֲצֹצְרָה
trumpet
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
24 distinct verses where H2689 appears in the Absolute state, across 8 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 3 verses
- Numbers 10:8 בַּֽ/חֲצֹצְר֑וֹת prep + n c fp The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.
- Numbers 10:9 בַּ/חֲצֹצְר֑וֹת prep + n c fp When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
- Numbers 10:10 בַּ/חֲצֹֽצְרֹ֗ת prep + n c fp Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am Yahweh your God.
2 Kings 2 verses
- 2 Kings 11:14 וְ/הַ/חֲצֹֽצְרוֹת֙ בַּ/חֲצֹֽצְר֑וֹת conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp prep + n c fp and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, Treason! treason!
- 2 Kings 12:13 חֲצֹ֣צְר֔וֹת n c fp But there were not made for the house of Yahweh cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh;
1 Chronicles 5 verses
- 1 Chronicles 13:8 וּ/בַ/חֲצֹצְרֽוֹת conj + prep + n c fp David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
- 1 Chronicles 15:24 בַּ/חֲצֹ֣צְר֔וֹת prep + n c fp Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
- 1 Chronicles 15:28 וּ/בַ/חֲצֹצְר֖וֹת conj + prep + n c fp Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with psalteries and harps.
- 1 Chronicles 16:6 בַּ/חֲצֹצְר֣וֹת prep + n c fp and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
- 1 Chronicles 16:42 חֲצֹצְר֤וֹת n c fp and with them Heman and Jeduthun [with] trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and [with] instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.
2 Chronicles 9 verses
- 2 Chronicles 5:12 בַּ/חֲצֹֽצְרֽוֹת prep + n c fp also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets;)
- 2 Chronicles 5:13 בַּ/חֲצֹצְר֨וֹת prep + n c fp it happened, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, [saying], For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever; that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh,
- 2 Chronicles 13:14 בַּ/חֲצֹצְרֽוֹת prep + n c fp When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
- 2 Chronicles 15:14 וּ/בַ/חֲצֹצְר֖וֹת conj + prep + n c fp They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
- 2 Chronicles 20:28 וּ/בַ/חֲצֹצְר֑וֹת conj + prep + n c fp They came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets to the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 23:13 וְ/הַ/חֲצֹצְרוֹת֮ בַּ/חֲצֹ֣צְר֔וֹת conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp prep + n c fp and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the singers also [played] on instruments of music, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, Treason! treason!
- 2 Chronicles 29:26 בַּ/חֲצֹצְרֽוֹת prep + n c fp The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
- 2 Chronicles 29:27 וְ/הַ/חֲצֹ֣צְר֔וֹת conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of Yahweh began also, and the trumpets, together with the instruments of David king of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 29:28 וְ/הַ/חֲצֹצְר֖וֹת conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp All the assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this [continued] until the burnt offering was finished.
Ezra 1 verse
Nehemiah 2 verses
- Nehemiah 12:35 בַּ/חֲצֹצְר֑וֹת prep + n c fp and certain of the priests' sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;
- Nehemiah 12:41 בַּ/חֲצֹצְרֽוֹת prep + n c fp and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
Psalms 1 verse
Hosea 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun חצצרה centers on the idea of “trumpet.” Its earliest occurrence is Numbers 10:2. Spanning 27 verses in 8 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. 2 Chronicles dominates its distribution — 10 of 27 verses. Related forms include חצר and חצר. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2689 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 27
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 27 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,160
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,160 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 27 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 10 verses 37%
- Numbers 5 verses 19%
- 1 Chronicles 5 verses 19%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 27 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 19 verses · 70%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 19%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 11%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Trumpets 26×, Trumpeters 2×
- American Standard Version†: Trumpets 24×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Trumpets 23×, Trumpeters 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Trumpets 24×, The 2×, Trumpets of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2689 across 29† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2689 across 29† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2689 across 29† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2689 across 31† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 5 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. as secular instr. Ho 5:8 (‖ שׁוֹפָר) 2 K 11:14(×2) = 2 Ch 23:13(×2). e.g. Hosea 5:8
- 2. as sacred instr. 2 K 12:14, especially for use by priests (only P, ψ 98 and Chr). e.g. 2 Kings 12:14
- a. תקע בח׳ (of blowing a single long blast) Nu 10:3, 4, 7, 8, to gather congreg. or נשׂיא׳ together, and, on festivals, over sacrif., ‘to be remembered before י׳,’ v 10. e.g. Numbers 10:3
- b. תקע תרועה בח׳, or הריע בח׳ (of sounding alarm,—a series of quick blasts) for camps to move Nu 10:5, 6, also in battle, v 9, ‘to be remembered before י׳;’ so Nu 31:6; 2 Ch 13:12 (cf. v 14), both ח׳ התרועה. e.g. Numbers 10:5
- c. especially in Chr’s descriptions of ceremonies at festivals, to express rejoicing: 1 Ch 13:8; 15:28 (‖ קוֹל שׁוֹפָר), 16:6, 42; 2 Ch 15:14 (‖ שׁוֹפָר), 20:28; 29:26, 27; Ezr 3:10; Ne 12:35, 41, ψ 98:6 (‖ קוֹל שׁוֹפָר); הָרִים קוֹל בח׳ 2 Ch 5:13; מחצצרים בח׳ 1 Ch 15:24; 2 Ch 5:12, 13; 13:14; in 2 Ch 29:28 this pt. agrees with noun in sense, and is masc.; and the clarions (= players on the clarions) sounded.—The חֲצֹצְרָה, or (sacred) clarion, was a long, straight, slender metal tube, with flaring end, v. BenzArchäol 277; distinguished thus from the שׁוֹפָר which was originally a ram’s horn, and prob. always retained the horn-shape; the שׁוֹפָר is mentioned constantly in the earlier lit., and was used by watchmen, warriors, etc., as well as priests (v. Benzib. 276 and שׁוֹפָר). e.g. 1 Chronicles 13:8
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. clarion (NH חֲצוֹצֶרֶת, Aramaic חֲצוֹצַרְתָּא)—mostly P and late;—abs. ח׳ Ho 5:8; pl. abs. חֲצֹצְרוֹת Nu 10:8 + 22 times; חֲצֹצְרֹת Nu 10:9, 10; cstr. id. Nu 31:6; 2 Ch 13:12; חֲצוֹצְרֹת Nu 10:2; clarion:
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חצר (châtsar) (H2690) — to trumpet.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חֲצֹצְרָא
- &c., v. חְצוֹצְ׳
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 23 distinct written forms H2689 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2689, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 25 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 27 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
