King James Bible Dictionary

TRUMP, noun

1. A trumpet; a wind instrument of music; a poetical word used for trumpet. It is seldom used in prose, in common discourse; but is used in Scripture, where it seems peculiarly appropriate to the grandeur of the subject.

At the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised. 1 Corinthians 15:52. 1 Thessalonians 4:16.

2. [contracted from triumph.] A winning card; one of the suit of cards which takes any of the other suits.

3. An old game with cares.

To put to the trumps,

To put on the trumps, to reduce to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion of power.

TRUMP, verb intransitive To take with a trump card.

1. To obtrude; also, to deceive. [Not in use.]

To trump up, to devise; to seek and collect from every quarter.

TRUMP, verb intransitive To blow a trumpet.

TRUMP'ERY, noun Falsehood; empty talk.

1. Useless matter; things worn out and cast side.

[This is the sense of the word in New England.]

Made of ram's horn
Joshua 6:4-6; Joshua 6:8; Joshua 6:13

Made of silver
Numbers 10:2

Uses of, prescribed by Moses
Numbers 10:1-10

Used in war
Job 39:24-25; Jeremiah 4:19; Jeremiah 6:1; Jeremiah 6:17; Jeremiah 42:14; Jeremiah 51:27; Ezekiel 7:14; Amos 2:2; Amos 3:6; Zephaniah 1:16; 1 Corinthians 14:8

Used to summon soldiers:

By Phinehas
Numbers 31:6

By Ehud
Judges 3:27

By Gideon
Judges 6:34

By Saul
1 Samuel 13:3

By Joab
2 Samuel 2:28; 2 Samuel 18:16; 2 Samuel 20:22

By Absalom
2 Samuel 15:10

By Sheba
2 Samuel 20:1

By Nehemiah
Nehemiah 4:18; Nehemiah 4:20

Used by Gideon's soldiers
Judges 7:8-22

Used in war, of Abijah
2 Chronicles 13:12; 2 Chronicles 13:14

Used in the siege of Jericho
Joshua 6:4-20

Sounded in time of danger
Ezekiel 33:3-6; Joel 2:1

Used at Sinai
Exodus 19:13-19; Exodus 20:18; Hebrews 12:19

Used on the great day of atonement
Isaiah 27:13

Used at the jubilee
Leviticus 25:9

Used at the bringing up of the ark
2 Samuel 6:5; 2 Samuel 6:15; 1 Chronicles 13:8; 1 Chronicles 15:28

Used at the anointing of kings
1 Kings 1:34; 1 Kings 1:39; 2 Kings 9:13; 2 Kings 11:14

Used at the dedication of Solomon's temple
2 Chronicles 5:12-13; 2 Chronicles 7:6

Used in worship
1 Chronicles 15:24; 1 Chronicles 16:42; 1 Chronicles 25:5; Psalms 81:3-4

Used at Jehoshaphat's triumph
2 Chronicles 20:28

Used at the foundation of the second temple
Ezra 3:10-11

Used at the dedication of the wall
Nehemiah 12:35; Nehemiah 12:41

Figurative
Isaiah 27:13; Ezekiel 33:3; Joel 2:1; Zech 9:14; Matthew 6:2

Symbolic
Matthew 24:31; 1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 1:10; Revelation 4:1; Revelation 8:1-13; Revelation 9:1-14; Revelation 10:7; Revelation 11:15
Music, Instruments of

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TRUMP'ET, noun

1. A wind instrument of music, used chiefly in war and military exercises. It is very useful also at sea, in speaking with ships. There is a speaking trumpet and a hearing trumpet They both consist of long tubular bodies, nearly in the form of a parabolic conoid, with wide mouths.

The trumpet's loud clangor

Excites us to arms.

2. In the military style, a trumpeter.

He wisely desired that a trumpet might be first sent for a pass.

3. One who praises or propagates praise, or is the instrument or propagating it. A great politician was pleased to be the trumpet of his praises.

TRUMP'ET, verb transitive To publish by sound of trumpet; also, to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.

They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.

TRUMP'ETED, participle passive Sounded abroad; proclaimed.

TRUMP'ETER, noun One who sounds a trumpet.

1. One who proclaims, publishes or denounces.

These men are good trumpeters.

2. A bird, a variety of the domestic pigeon. Also, a bird of South America, the agami, of the genus Psophia, about the size of the domestic fowl; so called from its uttering a hollow noise, like that of a trumpet.

TRUMP'ET-FISH, noun A fish of the genus Centriscus, (C. scolopax; ) called also the bellows fish.

TRUMP'ET-FLOWER, noun A flower of the genus Bignonia, and another of the genus Lonicera.

TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE, noun A plant of the genus Lonicera.

TRUMP'ETING, participle present tense Blowing the trumpet; proclaiming.

Were of a great variety of forms, and were made of divers materials. Some were made of silver (Numbers 10:2), and were used only by the priests in announcing the approach of festivals and in giving signals of war. Some were also made of rams' horns (Joshua 6:8). They were blown at special festivals, and to herald the arrival of special seasons (Leviticus 23:24; 25:9; 1 Chronicles 15:24; 2 Chronicles 29:27; Psalms 81:3; 98:6).

"Trumpets" are among the symbols used in the Book of Revelation (Revelation 1:10; 8:2). (See HORN.)

Was celebrated at the beginning of the month Tisri, the first month of the civil year. It received its name from the circumstances that the trumpets usually blown at the commencement of each month were on that occasion blown with unusual solemnity (Leviticus 23:23-25; Numbers 10:10; 29:1-6). It was one of the seven days of holy convocation. The special design of this feast, which is described in these verses, is not known.

When and how observed
Leviticus 23:24-25; Numbers 29:1-6

Celebrated after the captivity with joy
Nehemiah 8:2; Nehemiah 8:9-12
Feasts

(Numbers 29:1; Leviticus 23:24) the feast of the new moon, which fell on the first of Tisri. It differed from the ordinary festivals of the new moon in several important particulars. It was one of the seven days of holy convocation. Instead of the mere blowing of the trumpets of the temple at the time of the offering of the sacrifices, it was "a day of blowing of trumpets." In addition to the daily sacrifices and the eleven victims offered on the first of every month, there were offered a young bullock, a ram and seven lambs of the first year, with the accustomed meat offerings, and a kid for a sin offering. (Numbers 29:1-6) The regular monthly offering was thus repeated, with the exception of the young bullock. It has been conjectured that (Psalms 81:1) ... one of the songs of Asaph, was composed expressly for the Feast of Trumpets. The psalm is used in the service for the day by the modern Jews. Various meanings have been assigned to the Feast of Trumpets; but there seems to be no sufficient reason to call in question the common opinion of Jews and Christians, that if was the festival of the New Year's day of the civil year, the first of Tisri, the month which commenced the sabbatical year and the year of jubilee.

TRUMP'ET-SHELL, noun The name of a genus of univalvular shells, of the form of a trumpet, (Buccinum, Linne.)

TRUMP'ET-TONGUED, adjective Having a tongue vociferous as a trumpet.

TRUMP'LIKE, adjective Resembling a trumpet.