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( úְּøåּòָä , teruah', a loud sound or shout, as often), a broken quivering sound of the silver trumpets of the Hebrew, warning them in their journey in the wilderness (Num_10:5-6; comp. Lev_23:24; Lev_25:9). When the people or the rulers were to be assembled together, the trumpet was blown softly; when the camps were to move forward, or the people to march to war, it was sounded with a deeper note (Jahn, Bibl. Archaeol. § 95, 5). Hence a warnote or call to arms, or other public exigency in general (Jer_4:19; Jer_49:2; Zep_1:16). SEE TRUMPET.