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שׁוֹפָר

shofar

pronounced sho-FAR

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

In Scripture World English Bible

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

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  • תשרי tishrei The later name of the Torah's seventh month;…
  • שופר shofar An animal-horn wind instrument; a ram's horn…
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  • זכרון תרועה zikhron teruah A remembrance or memorial of teruah — the…