תְּרוּעָה
alarm
also: signal, sound of tempest, shout fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
3 verses where H8643 appears in the Absolute state in the Book of Ezra. 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.
Ezra
- Ezra 3:11 תְרוּעָ֨ה n c fs They sang one to another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, [saying], For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel. All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of the house of Yahweh was laid.
- Ezra 3:12 בִּ/תְרוּעָ֥ה prep + n c fs But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' [houses], the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
- Ezra 3:13 תְּרוּעַ֣ת תְּרוּעָ֣ה n c fs cs n c fs so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
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.
At its core, תרועה (tᵉrûwʻâh) means “alarm.” Not a single-sense word: its full sense range also takes in “signal”, “sound of tempest”, and “shout”. It appears 33 verses across 14 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. First canonically at Leviticus 23:24, it enters the text early. It shares a root with רוע and רע. 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 H8643 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 →
- 33
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 33 distinct verses.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #990
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 990 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 33 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 33 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 14 verses · 42%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 12 verses · 36%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 7 verses · 21%
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: Shout 9×, Shouting 7×, Alarm 5×
- American Standard Version: Shout 8×, Shouting 8×, Alarm 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shouting 4×, Amid war cries 2×, Battle cry 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shout 15×, A 5×, Shouting 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8643 across 36 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 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 H8643 across 34 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 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 H8643 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 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 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8643 across 40 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.
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 4 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. alarm of war, war-cry, Jos 6:5, 20; Je 20:16; Ez 21:27; Am 1:14; 2:2; Zp 1:16; Jb 39:25; ת׳ מִלְחָמָה Je 4:19; 49:2; ת׳ מֶלֶךְ battle-cry of kingNu 23:21 (poem in JE). e.g. Joshua 6:5
- 2. blast for march: תקע ת׳ Nu 10:5, 6(×2) (P; with חֲצֹצְרוֹת; hence) חֲצֹצְרוֹת הַתּ׳ Nu 31:6 (P) 2 Ch 13:12; on day of atonement שׁוֹפַר ת׳ Lv 25:9 (H); 1st of mo. זִכְרוֹן ת׳ 23:24 (P; בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִי בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ), יוֹם תֹ Nu 29:1 (P); gen. צִלְצְלֵי ת׳ ψ 150:5. e.g. Numbers 10:5
- 3. shout of joy with religious impulse, 1 S 4:5, 6(×2); 2 S 6:15 = 1 Ch 15:28; 2 Ch 15:14; Ezr 3:11, 12, 13; קוֹל ת׳ הַשִּׂמְחָה Ezr 3:13; in public worship gen. Jb 33:26; especially + musical service ψ 33:3; 47:6; זִבְחֵי ת׳ 27:6, יֹדְעֵי ת׳ 89:16. e.g. 1 Samuel 4:5
- 4. shout of joy, in gen. Jb 8:21 (‖שְׂחוֹק). e.g. Job 8:21
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. shout or blast of war, alarm, or joy;—ת׳ Lv 23:24 +; cstr. תְּרוּעַת Je 4:19 +;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רוע (rûwaʻ) (H7321) — to shout.
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.
תְּרוּעָה
- blowing the trumpet, esp. T’ruʿah, a rapid succession of three notes, tremolo. R. Hash. IV, 9 שיעור ת׳, v. יַבָּבָה. Ib. 34ᵃ שיעור תקיעה כת׳ שיעור ת׳ וכ׳ the value of a T’ḳiʿah is equal to a T’ruʿah, and that of a T’ruʿah is equal to three Sh’barim. Ib. ת׳ בפני עצמה ות׳ וכ׳ t’kiʿah (the verb תקע) means one thing, and t’ruʿah (the verb הריע) another thing; תקיעה ותר׳ אחת היא they mean the same; a. fr.—Pl. תְּרוּעוֹת. Ib. IV, 9 כשלש ת׳, v. תְּקִיעָה. Ib. 34ᵃ; 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 23 distinct written forms H8643 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 H8643, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 33 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 33 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
- Leviticus 23:24
- Numbers 10:5
- Joshua 6:5
- 1 Samuel 4:5
- 2 Samuel 6:15
- 1 Chronicles 15:28
- 2 Chronicles 13:12
- Ezra 3:11
- Job 8:21
- Psalms 27:6
- Jeremiah 4:19
- Ezekiel 21:22
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.
