תָּקַע
to blow
also: clap, strike, sound, thrust fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
- 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.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘thrust’
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
Form
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
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).
Person
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8628 appears in the Book of Zechariah — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Zechariah
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.
תקע — transliterated tâqaʻ — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to blow.” Debuting at Genesis 31:25, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 62 verses in 23 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. The verb spans 2 stems, from Qal to Niphal. From the same root come תקוע and תקע. See the sense tree, 62-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8628 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 →
- 62
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 62 distinct verses.
- 23 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 23 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #569
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 569 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 62 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 62 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 43 verses · 69%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 16%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 9 verses · 15%
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: Blew 11×, Blow 9×, He blew 4×
- American Standard Version: Blew 10×, Blow 9×, He blew 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Blow 9×, Blew 8×, Blowing 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Blew 6×, Blow 6×, They blew 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8628 across 68 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 29 renderings that appear 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 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8628 across 68 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 31 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 H8628 across 65 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 25 renderings that appear 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 H8628 across 72 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 29 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
7 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
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 7 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.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. ת׳ Gn 31:25 +, 1 s. וְתָקַעְתִּ֫י Ju 7:18, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּתְקַע 3:27 +, sf. וַיִּתְקָעֵהוּ Ex 10:19, etc.; Imv. mpl. תִּקְעוּ Ho 5:8 +; Inf. abs. תָּקוֹעַ Jos 6:9, 13; cstr. לִתְקוֹעַ Ju 7:20, כִּת׳ Is 18:3; Pt. act. תֹּקֵעַ Pr 17:13 +, etc.; pass. f. תְּקוּעָה Is 22:25;— e.g. Genesis 31:25
- 1. thrust, drive, weapon (acc.) into (ב) a person Ju 3:21; 4:21; 2 S 18:14, peg into (ב) sthg. Is 22:23, 25 (cf. Ju 4:21); hence pitch a tent (acc.), i.e. drive its pegs: Gn 31:25a; Je 6:3 (+ עַל against, in fig.), acc. om. Gn 31:25b; thrust, drive, beat (strands of hair together) בַּיָּתֵד Ju 16:14, ins. also v 13 (so 𝔊; cf. GFMComm. and paos Oct. 1889, 176 ff.); thrust, drive locusts seaward (ה loc.), Ex 10:19 (J); cf. ת׳ בְּ 1 S 31:10 of fastening bodies to wall, and similarly 1 Ch 10:10 (but read in both הוֹקִיעוּ, √ יקע Lag We Dr and mod.). e.g. Judges 3:21
- 2. give a blast, blow (Germ. ‘stossen’), c. ב of instr. (usually horn or clarion) Jos 6:4, 8, 9, 13(×2), 16, 20 (JE), Ju 3:27; 6:34; 7:18(×2), 19, 20 + 14 times, + Nu 10:3, 4, 8, 10 (P; v. חֲצֹצְרָה), also Ez 7:14 (v. תָּקוֹעַ infr.); ת׳ alone Ju 7:20 Nu 10:7 (P; opp. חֵרִיעַ sound an alarm), c. acc. תְּרוּעָה v 5, 6(×2) (P; v. חֲצֹצְרָה); c. acc. of instrument Ju 7:22; Ho 5:8; Is 18:3; Je 4:5; 6:1; 51:27; Jo 2:1, 15 ψ 81:4, + תקעו Jos 6:9 (Kt; Qr תֹּקְעֵי). e.g. Joshua 6:4
- 3. strike, clap hands; in triumph, ת׳ כַּף עָלֶיךָ Na 3:19, ת׳ כָ֑ף ψ 47:2; also (late) of gesture ratifying a bargain, specif. pledging oneself to become surety, only Pr. (all ‖ עָרַב): ת׳ לַזָּר כַּפֶּיךָ, ת׳ כַּף 17:18; 22:26; abs. 11:15. e.g. Nahum 3:19
Niphal
- Impf. 3 ms.
- 1. יִתָּקַע שׁוֹפָר Am 3:6 if a horn be blown, cf.יִתּ׳ בְּשׁ׳ Is 27:13 it shall be blown (a blast shall be given) on a horn. e.g. Amos 3:6
- 2. מִי־הוּא לְיָדִי יִתָּקֵֽעַ׃ Jb 17:3 who is there that will strike himself (i.e. pledge himself) into my hand? e.g. Job 17:3
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
vb. thrust, clap, give a blow, blast (NH id.; J.Aram תְּקַע strike, blow horn; Ethiopic ጠቅዐ blow trumpet);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
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.
תָּקַע
- [to bring into contact, knock, insert,]
- 1. to drive a peg in, put up a tent; to fasten. Yalk. Cant. 981 הלואי יִתְקַע תורתי בלבנו וכ׳ Oh that he would drive his law into our heart as in former days. Ex. R. s. 117 Caleb is named Tekoa (I Chr. II, 24), שת׳ לבו לאביו וכ׳ because he fastened his heart on his father in heaven. Yeb. 109ᵇ תּוֹקֵעַ עצמו לדבר הלכה he who nails himself to the matter of the law, i.e. confines himself to study, and is remiss in practical conduct; ואיבעית אימא תוקע … בדיינא וכ׳ or I may explain, ‘he who nails himself to the matter of the law’ refers to a judge before whom a case comes, and he having learned a certain hălakhah decides by analogy, while there is a greater scholar than he whom he fails to consult; a. e.—Part. pass. תָּקוּעַ lodged, placed. B. Mets. 85ᵇ אצל מי אתה ת׳ next to whom art thou placed (in heaven)? Y. Sot. IX, 23ᶜ והסכין ת׳ בלבו with the knife sticking in his heart; a. e. e.g. 1 Chronicles 2:24
- 2. (cmp. רָעַע) to shout, esp. to blow (a horn). B. Kam. 18ᵇ תרנגול … ות׳ בו ושברו if a cock put his head into a glass vessel and crowed into it, and broke it; Kidd. 24ᵇ. Ib. ת׳ באזנו וכ׳ if one blew on a horn into a person’s ear, and made him deaf; a. e.—Esp. a) to blow the Shofar at services; b) to sound the plain note (תְּקִיעָה). R. Hash. III, 5 בר"ה תּוֹקְעִין בשל זכרים on New Year’s day they blow on a ram’s horn. Ib. 7 התוקע לתוך הבור וכ׳ if one blows (the Shofar) into a pit &c. Ib. IV, 1 יום טוב … תוקעים וכ׳ when New Year fell on a Sabbath, they blew in the Temple, but not in the country. Ib. 8 אין מעכבין … מלִתְקוֹעַ we do not prevent children from blowing the Shofar (on the Sabbath). Ib. 9 תוקע ומריע ותוקע, v. רוּעַ I. Taan. II, 5 תִּקְעיּ הכהנים תָּקְעוּ וכ׳ (the reader said,) sound the T’ḳiʿah, you priests, and they did so, (upon which he said,) He who has answered &c.; a. v. fr.—[
- 3. to slap with the back of the hand. B. Kam. VIII, 6 (90ᵃ) התוקע לחבירו he who slaps his neighbor on the ear; oth. opin. who shouts into his neighbor’s ear.]
- to cause to blow. R. Hash. IV, 7 השני מַתְקִיעַ the second reader orders the blowing of the Shofar.
- 1. to be driven in, be inserted. Yeb. 54ᵃ ונ׳ and his membrum was inserted.
- 2. to be lodged. Taan. 24ᵃ אוי לו לדור שנ׳ בכך Ms. M. (ed. שכן נ׳) woe to the generation that is placed in such a (bad) position.
תְּקַע
- 1. to clap. Targ. Ps. XLVII, 2.
- 2. to sound, blow. Targ. I Chr. XXV, 5. Targ. Num. X, 3, sq.; a. fr.
- to be sounded. Targ. Is. XXVII, 13.
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 58 distinct written forms H8628 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’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 H8628, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → 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 62 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
- Genesis 31:25
- Exodus 10:19
- Numbers 10:3
- Joshua 6:8
- Judges 3:21
- 1 Samuel 13:3
- 2 Samuel 2:28
- 1 Kings 1:34
- 2 Kings 9:13
- 1 Chronicles 10:10
- 2 Chronicles 23:13
- Job 17:3
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.
