# shofar (שׁוֹפָר)

pronounced: sho-FAR


**An animal-horn wind instrument; a ram's horn is preferred for Rosh HaShanah in later tradition**

## In Scripture

> On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
> — Exodus 19:16 (The shofar at Sinai — the sound that announces God drawing near)

> Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
> — Leviticus 25:9 (The Jubilee shofar, sounded on Yom Kippur to release land and debts)

> God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.
> — Psalm 47:5 (The shofar as the sound of God taking His throne)

> 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.
> — Isaiah 27:13 (The shofar gadol that gathers the scattered back to Jerusalem)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


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