שֹׁפָר
horn
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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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
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
1 verse where H7782 appears in the Construct state in the Book of Judges. 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.
Judges
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.
שופר — transliterated shôwphâr — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “horn.” Its English rendering has broadened — “trumpet” classically, “ram’s horn” (Berean Standard Bible) and “shofar” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 63 verses in 21 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is Exodus 19:16. Sharing its root, it stands alongside שפר, שפר and שפר. See the sense tree, 63-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7782 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 →
- 63
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 63 distinct verses.
- 21 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 21 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #550
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 550 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 63 occurrences in the concordance →
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 63 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 49 verses · 78%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 16%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 6%
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).
- King James Version: Trumpet 40×, Trumpets 19×, Cornet 2×
- American Standard Version: Trumpet 41×, Trumpets 17×, Ye the trumpet 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ram’s horn 34×, Horn 13×, Horns 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shofar 27×, Horn 15×, Shofars 15×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7782 across 72 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7782 across 72 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 H7782 across 65 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7782 across 73 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.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- horn, ram's horn
Word origin
שֹׁפָר, שׁוֹפָר 72 n.m. horn, for blowing
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שפר (shâphar) (H8231) — to be beautiful.
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.
שֹׁופָר
- [rounded; cmp. שְׁפוֹפֶרֶת,]
- 1. horn, trumpet, Shofar, contrad. to חצצרות. R. Hash. III, 3 ש׳ של ראש השנה וכ׳ the horn for the New Year’s Day (used in the Temple) was from a mountain-goat, straight, and its mouthpiece was inlaid with gold. Ib. ש׳ מאריך וכ׳ the tone of the shofar was prolonged, that of the accompanying trumpets short. Ib. 4. Lev. R. s. 29; a. v. fr.—Pl. שֹׁופָרוֹת. R. Hash. III, 2, v. קֶרֶן. Lev. R. l. c. ובר"ה נוטלין שֹׁופְרוֹתֵיהֶן וכ׳ and on New Year’s Day they take up their Shofars and blow before the Lord, and he rises from the throne of justice to that of mercy &c.; ib. שֹׁופָרֵיהֶן; a. fr.—Esp. שופרות (also שופר) shofaroth, that section of the Musaf service of the New Year’s Day which treats of the shofar (of the Revelation). R. Hash. IV, 5 ש׳ ותוקע the reader recites shofaroth and blows. Ib. 6 אין פוחתין … מעשרה ש׳ you must cite no less than ten Biblical verses referring to the shofar. Ib. (32ᵃ) אין מזכירין מלכיות זכרונות וש׳ של פורענות Ms. M. (ed. זכרון מלכות ושופר) you must not cite verses referring to rulership, memorials, and shofar which allude to evil dispensations; a. e.
- 2. horn-shaped box in the Temple to receive the money for sacrifices which are supplied by the Temple authorities. Tosef. Shek. III, 2 ונותן לש׳ and puts the money into the proper box. Ib. ש׳ של נדבה box for free-will offerings. Ib. 3 ש׳ לקינים box for bird offerings; a. fr.—Pl. as ab. Shek. VI, 1; Tosef. ib. III, 1; a. fr.
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 41 distinct written forms H7782 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 H7782, 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
- שפר shᵉphar H8232 to be fair
- שפר shepher H8233 beauty
- שפרה shiphrâh H8235 fairness
- שפרור shaphrûwr H8237 canopy
- שפרפר shᵉpharphar H8238 dawn
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 60 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 63 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 19:16
- Leviticus 25:9
- Joshua 6:5
- Judges 3:27
- 1 Samuel 13:3
- 2 Samuel 2:28
- 1 Kings 1:34
- 2 Kings 9:13
- 1 Chronicles 15:28
- 2 Chronicles 15:14
- Job 39:24
- Psalms 47:5
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.
