Hebrew verb · H2690
חָצַר
chatsarkhaw-tsar'
to blow
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châtsar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2690is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2690
to trumpet, i.e. blow on that instrument
The King James renders it: blow, sound, trumpeter.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chatsar is rendered "to blow". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Five of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Chronicles 15:24Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer—the priests—were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were also to be guardians of the ark.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer—the priests—were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were also to be guardians of the ark.
1 Chronicles 15:24מַחְצְרִים֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's six uses are in 2 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- blowing a trumpet5
- to the trumpeters1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מַחְצְרִ֖ים2
- לַמְחַצְּרִ֨ים1
- מַחְצְרִים֙1
- מַחְצְרִ֣ים1
- מַחְצְרִ֑ים1
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural5HVhrmpa
- preposition with the article + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural1HRd/Vprmpa
1 Chronicles
one use
Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer—the priests—were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were also to be guardians of the ark.
- מַחְצְרִים֙machatzotzerimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: blowing a trumpet
2 Chronicles
five uses
all the Levitical singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.
- מַחְצְרִ֖יםmachtzeririmverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: blowing a trumpet
The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud
- לַמְחַצְּרִ֨יםlamachatzotzerimpreposition with the article + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: to the trumpeters
The priests stood at their posts, as did the Levites with the musical instruments of the LORD, which King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD and with which David had offered praise, saying, “For His loving devotion endures forever.” Across from the Levites, the priests sounded trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.
- מַחְצְרִ֣יםmachatzotzerimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: blowing a trumpet
When Judah turned and discovered that the battle was both before and behind them, they cried out to the LORD. Then the priests blew the trumpets,
- מַחְצְרִ֖יםmachatzotzerimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: blowing a trumpet
The whole assembly was worshiping, the singers were singing, and the trumpeters were playing. All this continued until the burnt offering was completed.
- מַחְצְרִ֑יםmachatzotzerimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: blowing a trumpet
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.