תְּרוּעָה teruah
Hebrew word for “shout” · Strong’s H8643 · used 36 times in 33 verses
Meaning
1) alarm, signal, sound of tempest, shout, shout or blast of war or alarm or joy;
How it is translated
Glosses given for teruah in context, with how often each is used:
- shout 11
- shout of joy 9
- alarm 5
- sound of a loud blast 3
- shout of alarm 3
- shouting 2
- battle-cry 2
- war cry 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers | 6 | 0.4 | |
| Psalms | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Ezra | 4 | 1.1 | |
| 1 Samuel | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Job | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Jeremiah | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Leviticus | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Joshua | 2 | 0.2 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Amos | 2 | 1.0 | |
| 2 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 |
Also in 2 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
Ezra 3 (3), Numbers 10 (2), Joshua 6 (2), 1 Samuel 4 (2), Leviticus 23 (1), Leviticus 25 (1), Numbers 23 (1), Numbers 29 (1), Numbers 31 (1), 2 Samuel 6 (1)
Forms
- תרועה 15
- בתרועה 9
- התרועה 4
- תרועת 3
- ותרועה 3
- ותרועת 1
- ובתרועה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with teruah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שֹׁפָר shophar “trumpet” 11
- קוֹל qol “voice” 12
- רוּעַ rua “to shout” 6
- גָּדוֹל gadol “great” 8
- חֲצֹצְרָה chatsotserah “trumpet” 4
- שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 8
- אֲרוֹן aron “ark” 4
- מַחֲנֶה machaneh “camp” 4
- תָּקַע taqa “to blow” 3
- מִלְחָמָה milchamah “battle” 4
- עָלָה alah “to ascend” 5
- שְׁבִיעִי shevii “seventh” 3
Key verses
The verses using teruah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Numbers 23:21 — He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
- 1 Chronicles 15:28 — Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise…
- 2 Chronicles 13:12 — And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not…
- Ezra 3:11 — And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the…
- Job 33:26 — He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.
- Psalms 27:6 — And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will…
- Psalms 47:5 — God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
- Psalms 89:15 — Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
- Jeremiah 4:19 — My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the…
- Jeremiah 20:16 — And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
- Jeremiah 49:2 — Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap,…
- Amos 1:14 — But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the…
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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.