תָּקַע (ta.qa) means “to blow” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: taw-kah' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
תָּקַע · ta.qa · to blow
1) to blow, clap, strike, sound, thrust, give a blow, blast 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to thrust, drive (of weapon) 1a2) to give a blast, give a blow 1a3) to strike or clap hands 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be blown, blast (of horn) 1b2) to strike or pledge oneself
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a primitive root; to clatter, i.e. slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument); by analogy, to drive (a nail or tent-pin, a dart, etc.); by implication, to become bondsman by handclasping)
KJV glosses: blow (a trumpet), cast, clap, fasten, pitch (tent), smite, sound, strike, [idiom] suretiship, thrust.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| blow | 7 |
| blew | 5 |
| and blowing | 3 |
| and hung | 2 |
| sound | 2 |
| sounded | 2 |
| sounds | 2 |
| then they blew | 2 |
| to blow | 2 |
| when you sound | 2 |
| who blew | 2 |
| will sound | 2 |
| you are to blow | 2 |
| and blew | 1 |
| and blew them | 1 |
| and blows | 1 |
| and he blew | 1 |
| and plunged | 1 |
| and thrust them | 1 |
| applaud | 1 |
| are to signal them | 1 |
| are to sound | 1 |
| but the trumpeter | 1 |
| camped | 1 |
| clap | 1 |
| continued to sound | 1 |
| driven | 1 |
| had pitched | 1 |
| he blew | 1 |
| i will drive him | 1 |
| if you have struck hands in pledge | 1 |
| indebtedness | 1 |
| is sounded | 1 |
| one who gives pledges | 1 |
| she drove | 1 |
| so he blew | 1 |
| so while he slept delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web | 1 |
| sounding | 1 |
| strikes | 1 |
| they blew | 1 |
| they have blown | 1 |
| they will pitch | 1 |
| when both are sounded | 1 |
| you are to sound long blasts | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| blew | 7 |
| blow | 5 |
| and blew | 4 |
| and blow | 3 |
| and he blew | 3 |
| shall blow | 3 |
| and blowing | 2 |
| and they blew | 2 |
| and thrust | 2 |
| when ye blow | 2 |
| ye shall blow | 2 |
| and cast | 1 |
| and fastened | 1 |
| and he that sounded | 1 |
| and i will fasten | 1 |
| and if they blow | 1 |
| and she fastened | 1 |
| and sounded | 1 |
| and they fastened | 1 |
| and when he bloweth | 1 |
| and when they shall blow | 1 |
| be blown | 1 |
| blow up | 1 |
| had pitched | 1 |
| he blow | 1 |
| o clap | 1 |
| of thee shall clap | 1 |
| of them that strike | 1 |
| pitched | 1 |
| shall be blown | 1 |
| striketh | 1 |
| suretiship | 1 |
| that blew | 1 |
| that he blew | 1 |
| that is fastened | 1 |
| they have blown | 1 |
| they shall blow | 1 |
| thou hast stricken | 1 |
| to blow | 1 |
| unto her they shall pitch | 1 |
| unto him and smote | 1 |
| when i blow | 1 |
| will strike | 1 |
| with me then blow | 1 |
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Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.
Read word by wordAnd the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.
Read word by wordWhen both are sounded, the whole congregation is to assemble before you at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Read word by wordBut if only one is sounded, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, are to gather before you.
Read word by wordWhen you sound short blasts, the camps that lie on the east side are to set out.
Read word by wordWhen you sound the short blasts a second time, the camps that lie on the south side are to set out. The blasts are to signal them to set out.
Read word by wordTo convene the assembly, you are to sound long blasts, not short ones.
Read word by wordThe sons of Aaron, the priests, are to sound the trumpets. This shall be a permanent statute for you and the generations to come.
Read word by wordAnd on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”
Read word by wordHave seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark. Then on the seventh day, march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the horns.
Read word by wordAfter Joshua had spoken to the people, seven priests carrying seven rams’ horns before the LORD advanced and blew the horns, and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
Read word by wordWhile the horns continued to sound, the armed troops marched ahead of the priests who blew the horns, and the rear guard followed the ark.
Read word by wordAnd the seven priests carrying seven rams’ horns kept marching ahead of the ark of the LORD and blowing the horns. The armed troops went in front of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the LORD, while the horns kept sounding.
Read word by wordAfter the seventh time around, the priests blew the horns, and Joshua commanded the people, “Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!
Read word by wordSo when the rams’ horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.
Read word by wordAnd Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into Eglon’s belly.
Read word by wordOn arriving in Seirah, he blew the ram’s horn throughout the hill country of Ephraim. The Israelites came down with him from the hills, and he became their leader.
Read word by wordBut as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
Read word by wordSo the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, who blew the ram’s horn and rallied the Abiezrites behind him.
Read word by wordWhen I and all who are with me blow our horns, then you are also to blow your horns from all around the camp and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon!’”
Read word by wordGideon and the hundred men with him reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the changing of the guard. They blew their horns and broke the jars that were in their hands.
Read word by wordThe three companies blew their horns and shattered their jars. Holding the torches in their left hands and the horns in their right hands, they shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”
Read word by wordAnd when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.
Read word by wordSo while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web. Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.
Read word by wordThen Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost at Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. So Saul blew the ram’s horn throughout the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”
Read word by wordThey put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
Read word by wordSo Joab blew the ram’s horn, and all the troops stopped; they no longer pursued Israel or continued to fight.
Read word by wordBut Joab declared, “I am not going to wait like this with you!” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak tree.
Read word by wordThen Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab had restrained them.
Read word by wordNow a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”
Read word by wordThen the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
Read word by wordThere Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet are to anoint him king over Israel. You are to blow the ram’s horn and declare, ‘Long live King Solomon!’
Read word by wordZadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tabernacle and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the ram’s horn, and all the people proclaimed, “Long live King Solomon!”
Read word by wordQuickly, each man took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. Then they blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”
Read word by wordAnd she looked out and saw the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom. The officers and trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason! Treason!”
Read word by wordThey put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.
Read word by wordAnd she looked and saw the king standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets, while the singers with musical instruments were leading the praises. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason, treason!”
Read word by wordAnd each of the builders worked with his sword strapped at his side. But the trumpeter stayed beside me.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.12
Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
Read word by wordFor the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout unto God with a voice of triumph.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 47.2
Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 81.4
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,
Read word by wordHe who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.
Read word by wordA man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.
Read word by wordDo not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
Read word by wordAll you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when a ram’s horn sounds, you will hear it.
Read word by wordI will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.
Read word by wordIn that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
Read word by wordAnd in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
Read word by wordAnnounce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land. Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves and let us flee to the fortified cities.’
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