Hebrew word · Strong's H8628

תָּקַע

tâqaʻ · taw-kah' · verb · “to clap, blow, sound”

In a sentence

Taqaʿ means to drive, clap, or blow — especially to blow a trumpet (shofar). Israel summoned worship, war, and jubilee by the taqaʿ-blast.

Taqaʿ describes a sharp, driving sound — a trumpet blast, a hand clap. Trumpets are blown for assembly, alarm, festivals, jubilee.

Psalm 47 calls all peoples to «taqaʿ» their hands together for God. The verb captures the loud, public dimension of Israel's worship and warfare.

Strong's reference

Definition: 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)

KJV usage: blow (a trumpet), cast, clap, fasten, pitch (tent), smite, sound, strike, [idiom] suretiship, thrust.

Reference gloss from Strong's Concordance (1890, public domain).

Key verses BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

Psalms 47:1 “Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout unto God with a voice of triumph.” Leviticus 25:9 “Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land.”

Original BibleDawn word study. Original-language data and the public-domain Strong's (1890) gloss are referenced; see sources.