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Strong's #8628: taqa` (pronounced taw-kah')

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):--blow ((a trumpet)), cast, clap, fasten, pitch (tent), smite, sound, strike, X suretiship, thrust.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tâqa‛

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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 68 times:

Proverbs 22:26: "Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts."
Isaiah 18:3: "ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear"
Isaiah 22:23: " And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's"
Isaiah 22:25: "the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down,"
Isaiah 27:13: "day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria,"
Jeremiah 4:5: "and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together,"
Jeremiah 6:1: "gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up"
Jeremiah 6:3: "with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed"
Jeremiah 51:27: "Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations"
Ezekiel 7:14: " They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for"
Ezekiel 33:3: "come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;"
Ezekiel 33:6: "the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not"
Hosea 5:8: " Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, after"
Joel 2:1: " Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants"
Joel 2:15: " Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:"
Amos 3:6: "Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil"
Nahum 3:19: "all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon"
Zechariah 9:14: "as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south."









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