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Hebrew verb · H8628

תָּקַע

taqataw-kah'

to blow

69 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: tâqaʻ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8628is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 23 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 57
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H8628

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)

The King James renders it: blow (a trumpet), cast, clap, fasten, pitch (tent), smite, sound, strike, [idiom] suretiship, thrust.

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

taqa is rendered "to blow". It stands 69 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-three books.

  • Twelve of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:25Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.
  • The Greek text spells it fifty-seven different ways.

The first use

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.

Genesis 31:25תָּקַ֤ע

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and they gave a blast7
  • and he gave a blast6
  • and you will give a blast5
  • blow5
  • they will give a blast4
  • give a blast on3
  • and giving a blast2
  • and giving blasts2
  • he will give a blast2
  • they fixed2
  • among strike1
  • and he thrust it1

and 29 more, 69 uses in all

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.

תָּקַןtaqanbe straightUses3
תָּקַףtaqaphto prevailUses3
תָּקוֹעַtaqoatrumpetUses1

All 69, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

57 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

  • וַֽיִּתְקְעוּ֙3
  • וְתָקְע֖וּ3
  • יִתְקְע֖וּ3
  • וַיִּתְקַע֙2
  • וַיִּתְקַ֤ע2
  • וְתָק֥וֹעַ2
  • תִּקְע֣וּ2
  • תִּקְע֥וּ2
  • תִּקְע֨וּ2
  • בְתֹֽקְעֵי־1
  • הַתְּקוּעָ֖ה1
  • וְהַתּוֹקֵ֥עַ1

and 45 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural8HVqv2mp
  • Hc/Vqw3mp6Hc/Vqw3mp
  • Hc/Vqw3ms6Hc/Vqw3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural6HVqp3cp
  • Hc/Vqq2mp5Hc/Vqq2mp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural4HVqi3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVqp3ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVNi3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute2HC/Vqaa
  • Hc/Vqq3cp2Hc/Vqq3cp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HC/Vqrmsa
  • Hc/Vqw3fs2Hc/Vqw3fs

Genesis

two uses
  • 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.

    Genesis 31:25

    • תָּקַ֤עtaka'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had pitched
    • תָּקַ֥עtaka'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he pitched tent

Exodus

one use
  • And 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.

    Exodus 10:19

    • וַיִּתְקָעֵ֖הוּvaiyitkaehuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and it blew it

Numbers

eight uses
  • When both are sounded, the whole congregation is to assemble before you at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

    Numbers 10:3

    • וְתָקְע֖וּvetakeuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will give a blast
  • But if only one is sounded, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, are to gather before you.

    Numbers 10:4

    • יִתְקָ֑עוּyitkauverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will give a blast
  • When you sound short blasts, the camps that lie on the east side are to set out.

    Numbers 10:5

    • וּתְקַעְתֶּ֖םuteka'temHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will give a blast
  • When 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.

    Numbers 10:6

    • וּתְקַעְתֶּ֤םuteka'temHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will give a blast
    • יִתְקְע֖וּyitkeuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will give a blast
  • To convene the assembly, you are to sound long blasts, not short ones.

    Numbers 10:7

    • תִּתְקְע֖וּtitkeuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will give a blast
  • The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to sound the trumpets. This shall be a permanent statute for you and the generations to come.

    Numbers 10:8

    • יִתְקְע֖וּyitkeuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will give a blast
  • And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”

    Numbers 10:10

    • וּתְקַעְתֶּ֣םuteka'temHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will give a blast

Joshua

eight uses
  • Have 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.

    Joshua 6:4

    • יִתְקְע֖וּyitkeuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will give a blast
  • After 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.

    Joshua 6:8

    • וְתָקְע֖וּvetakeuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: and they gave a blast
  • While the horns continued to sound, the armed troops marched ahead of the priests who blew the horns, and the rear guard followed the ark.

    Joshua 6:9

    • תֹּקְעֵ֖יtakeuverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: give a blast on
    • וְתָק֥וֹעַvetakoa'conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and giving blasts
  • And 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.

    Joshua 6:13

    • וְתָקְע֖וּvetakeuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they gave blasts
    • וְתָק֥וֹעַvetakoa'conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and giving blasts
  • After the seventh time around, the priests blew the horns, and Joshua commanded the people, “Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!

    Joshua 6:16

    • תָּקְע֥וּtakeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they gave a blast
  • So 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.

    Joshua 6:20

    • וַֽיִּתְקְע֖וּvaiyitkeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they gave a blast

Judges

twelve uses
  • And Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into Eglon’s belly.

    Judges 3:21

    • וַיִּתְקָעֶ֖הָvaiyitkaehaHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he thrust it
  • On 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.

    Judges 3:27

    • וַיִּתְקַ֥עvaiyitka'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he gave a blast
  • But 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.

    Judges 4:21

    • וַתִּתְקַ֤עvatitka'Hc/Vqw3fstagged: and she drove
  • So the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, who blew the ram’s horn and rallied the Abiezrites behind him.

    Judges 6:34

    • וַיִּתְקַע֙vaiyitka'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he gave a blast
  • When 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!’”

    Judges 7:18

    • וְתָקַעְתִּי֙vetaka'tiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will give a blast
    • וּתְקַעְתֶּ֨םuteka'temHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will give a blast
  • Gideon 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.

    Judges 7:19

    • וַֽיִּתְקְעוּ֙vaiyitkeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they gave a blast
  • The 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!”

    Judges 7:20

    • וַֽ֠יִּתְקְעוּvaiyitkeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they gave a blast
    • לִתְק֑וֹעַlitkoa'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to give a blast
  • And 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.

    Judges 7:22

    • וַֽיִּתְקְעוּ֮vaiyitkeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they gave a blast
  • Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”

    Judges 16:13

    • וְתָקַעַתְּvetaka'taHc/Vqp2mstagged: and you will strike
  • So 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.

    Judges 16:14

    • וַתִּתְקַע֙vatitka'Hc/Vqw3fstagged: and she thrust

1 Samuel

two uses
  • Then 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!”

    1 Samuel 13:3

    • תָּקַ֨עtaka'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he gave a blast
  • They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.

    1 Samuel 31:10

    • תָּקְע֔וּtakeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they fixed

2 Samuel

five uses
  • So Joab blew the ram’s horn, and all the troops stopped; they no longer pursued Israel or continued to fight.

    2 Samuel 2:28

    • וַיִּתְקַ֤עvaiyitka'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he gave a blast
  • But 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.

    2 Samuel 18:14

    • וַיִּתְקָעֵם֙vaiyitkaemHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he thrust them
  • Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab had restrained them.

    2 Samuel 18:16

    • וַיִּתְקַ֤עvaiyitka'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he gave a blast
  • Now 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!”

    2 Samuel 20:1

    • וַיִּתְקַ֣עvaiyitka'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he gave a blast
  • Then 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.

    2 Samuel 20:22

    • וַיִּתְקַע֙vaiyitka'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he gave a blast

1 Kings

two uses
  • There 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!’

    1 Kings 1:34

    • וּתְקַעְתֶּם֙uteka'temHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will give a blast
  • Zadok 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!”

    1 Kings 1:39

    • וַֽיִּתְקְעוּ֙vaiyitkeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they gave a blast

2 Kings

two uses
  • Quickly, 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!”

    2 Kings 9:13

    • וַֽיִּתְקְעוּ֙vaiyitkeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they gave a blast
  • And 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!”

    2 Kings 11:14

    • וְתֹקֵ֖עַvetokea'conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and giving a blast

1 Chronicles

one use
  • They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.

    1 Chronicles 10:10

    • תָקְע֖וּtakeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they fixed

2 Chronicles

one use
  • And she looked out 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!”

    2 Chronicles 23:13

    • וְתוֹקֵ֙עַ֙vetokea'conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and giving a blast

Nehemiah

one use
  • And each of the builders worked with his sword strapped at his side. But the trumpeter stayed beside me.

    Nehemiah 4:18

    • וְהַתּוֹקֵ֥עַvehatokea'conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the gave a blast

Job

one use
  • Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?

    Job 17:3

    • יִתָּקֵֽעַ׃yitakea'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he strike himself

Psalms

two uses
  • Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout unto God with a voice of triumph.

    Psalms 47:1

    • תִּקְעוּ־tiku-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: strike
  • Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.

    Psalms 81:3

    • תִּקְע֣וּtikuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: blow

Proverbs

four uses
  • My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,

    Proverbs 6:1

    • תָּקַ֖עְתָּtaka'taverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have struck
  • He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.

    Proverbs 11:15

    • תֹקְעִ֣יםtokeimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: those striking hands
  • A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.

    Proverbs 17:18

    • תּוֹקֵ֣עַtokea'verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: striking
  • Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.

    Proverbs 22:26

    • בְתֹֽקְעֵי־vetokeei-preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: among strike

Isaiah

four uses
  • All 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.

    Isaiah 18:3

    • וְכִתְקֹ֥עַvekhitkoa'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and just as sounds
  • I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.

    Isaiah 22:23

    • וּתְקַעְתִּ֥יוuteka'tivHc/Vqq1cs/Sp3mstagged: and I will drive him
  • In 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.

    Isaiah 22:25

    • הַתְּקוּעָ֖הhatekuahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: that was driven
  • And 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.

    Isaiah 27:13

    • יִתָּקַע֮yitaka'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be blown

Jeremiah

four uses
  • Announce 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.’

    Jeremiah 4:5

    • תִּקְע֥וּvtikuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: blow
  • “Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.

    Jeremiah 6:1

    • תִּקְע֣וּtikuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: blow
  • Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:

    Jeremiah 6:3

    • תָּקְע֨וּtakeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will pitch
  • “Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.

    Jeremiah 51:27

    • תִּקְע֨וּtikuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: blow

Ezekiel

three uses
  • They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude.

    Ezekiel 7:14

    • תָּקְע֤וּtakeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have given a blast
  • and he sees the sword coming against that land and blows the ram’s horn to warn the people.

    Ezekiel 33:3

    • וְתָקַ֥עvetaka'Hc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will give a blast
  • But if the watchman sees the sword coming and fails to blow the horn to warn the people, and the sword comes and takes away a life, then that one will be taken away in his iniquity, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.’

    Ezekiel 33:6

    • תָקַ֤עtaka'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will give a blast

Hosea

one use
  • Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; raise the battle cry in Beth-aven: Lead on, O Benjamin!

    Hosea 5:8

    • תִּקְע֤וּtikuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: blow

Joel

two uses
  • Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—

    Joel 2:1

    • תִּקְע֨וּtikuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: give a blast on
  • Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

    Joel 2:15

    • תִּקְע֥וּtikuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: give a blast on

Amos

one use
  • If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

    Amos 3:6

    • יִתָּקַ֤עyitaka'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: is it blown

Nahum

one use
  • There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?

    Nahum 3:19

    • תָּ֤קְעוּtakeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they strike

Zechariah

one use
  • Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will sound the ram’s horn and advance in the whirlwinds of the south.

    Zechariah 9:14

    • יִתְקָ֔עyitka'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will give a blast

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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