Biblica Analytica
H8628 Hebrew

תָּקַע

ta.qa

to blow

Lexicon Entry

Definition
to blow
Transliteration
ta.qa
Strong's Number
H8628
Occurrences
69

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What Original Readers Understood

Explored

The word in Hebrew, ta.qa (H8628), is a verb meaning "to blow". Its primary action is the act of blowing, suggesting the dispersal of air or breath. This physical action can also imply other forms of transmission or transfer, such as blowing wind, air, or even words. Ta.qa is used 69 times in the Bible, demonstrating its significance in various contexts. The occurrences can be observed in both natural and human-made events, such as wind, storms, and breath, as well as human actions involving speech, music, and even the blowing of trumpets. As a verb, ta.qa conveys the dynamic energy and force of the act of blowing, highlighting the power and impact of air or breath in the physical world and human experience.

Source data & methodology
Strong's
H8628
Lemma
תָּקַע
Transliteration
ta.qa
Definition
to blow
Occurrences
69
Model
groq
Prompt version
1

AI synthesis uses only the lexicon data above as context — never training knowledge.

Occurrences in Scripture

69 total occurrences across the text — showing 50

2 Chronicles 23:13

Then she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king. All the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. The singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, “Treason! treason!”

Nehemiah 4:18

Among the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.

Job 17:3

“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

Psalms 47:1

Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

Psalms 81:3

Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

Proverbs 6:1

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,

Proverbs 11:15

He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

Proverbs 17:18

A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

Proverbs 22:26

Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

Isaiah 18:3

All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!

Isaiah 22:23

I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

Isaiah 22:25

“In that day,” says Yahweh of Armies, “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it.”

Isaiah 27:13

It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 4:5

Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’

Jeremiah 6:1

“Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction.

Jeremiah 6:3

Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”

Jeremiah 51:27

“Set 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, and Ashkenaz! Appoint a marshal against her! Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm!

Ezekiel 7:14

They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but no one goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude.

Ezekiel 33:3

if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet, and warns the people;

Ezekiel 33:6

But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’

Hosea 5:8

“Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!

Joel 2:1

Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:

Joel 2:15

Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.

Amos 3:6

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

Nahum 3:19

There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?

Zechariah 9:14

Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

Genesis 31:25

Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

Genesis 31:25

Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

Exodus 10:19

Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

Numbers 10:3

When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 10:4

If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.

Numbers 10:5

When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.

Numbers 10:6

When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

Numbers 10:6

When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

Numbers 10:7

But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.

Numbers 10:8

“The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.

Numbers 10:10

“Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God.”

Joshua 6:4

Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

Joshua 6:8

It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of Yahweh’s covenant followed them.

Joshua 6:9

The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.

Joshua 6:9

The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.

Joshua 6:13

The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of Yahweh’s ark went on continually, and blew the trumpets. The armed men went in front of them. The rear guard came after Yahweh’s ark. The trumpets sounded as they went.

Joshua 6:13

The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of Yahweh’s ark went on continually, and blew the trumpets. The armed men went in front of them. The rear guard came after Yahweh’s ark. The trumpets sounded as they went.

Joshua 6:16

At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!

Joshua 6:20

So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city.

Judges 3:21

Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body.

Judges 3:27

When he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he led them.

Judges 4:21

Then Jael Heber’s wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground, for he was in a deep sleep; so he fainted and died.

Judges 6:34

But Yahweh’s Spirit came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together to follow him.

Judges 7:18

When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’ ”