תָּקַע taqa

Hebrew word for “to blow” · Strong’s H8628 · used 68 times in 62 verses

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Meaning

1) to blow, clap, strike, sound, thrust, give a blow, blast;

How it is translated

Glosses given for taqa in context, with how often each is used:

• will give a blast 15
• gave a blast 15
• blow 5
• thrust 3
• giving blasts 2
• fixed 2
• giving a blast 2
• strike 2
• give a blast on 2
• had pitched 1
• pitched tent 1
• blew 1

Where it is used

Also in 11 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 10 (7), Joshua 6 (6), Judges 7 (4), Judges 3 (2), 2 Samuel 18 (2), 2 Samuel 20 (2), 1 Kings 1 (2), Isaiah 22 (2), Jeremiah 6 (2), Ezekiel 33 (2)

Forms

• תקעו 14
• ויתקעו 6
• ויתקע 6
• ותקעתם 5
• תקע 4
• יתקעו 4
• יתקע 4
• ותקעו 3
• ותקוע 2
• ותתקע 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with taqa more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שֹׁפָר shophar “trumpet” 34
• רוּעַ rua “to shout” 6
• עָרַב arav “to pledge” 5
• חֲצֹצְרָה chatsotserah “trumpet” 5
• אֹהֶל ohel “tent” 7
• כַּף kaph “palm” 6
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 8
• יָתֵד yated “peg” 4
• גִּדְעוֹן gidon “Gideon” 4
• נָשָׂא nasa “to lift” 7
• אַחַר achar “after” 7
• חֶרֶב cherev “sword” 6

Key verses

The verses using taqa that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Numbers 10:10 — Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and…
• Joshua 6:4 — And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall…
• 2 Samuel 20:1 — And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in…
• 1 Kings 1:34 — And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.
• Psalms 47:1 — [To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.] O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
• Psalms 81:3 — Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
• Isaiah 27:13 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the…
• Jeremiah 6:1 — O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem:…
• Jeremiah 51:27 — Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni,…
• Joel 2:1 — Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is…
• Amos 3:6 — Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
• Zechariah 9:14 — And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.