Bible word study

Taqa (Strong’s H8628): Meaning in the Bible

Taqa (תָּקַע) is the Hebrew word numbered H8628 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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). In the King James Bible it is translated blow (a trumpet), cast, clap, fasten, pitch (tent).

• Original wordתָּקַע
• Transliterationtâqaʻ
• Pronunciationtaw-kah'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH8628
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Taqa appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Taqa (H8628) stands behind 68 English renderings in 62 verses across 23 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Judges (11), Numbers (8), Joshua (8).

How the King James Bible renders Taqa, by count

• blow22 of 68 (32 percent)
• blew18 of 68 (26 percent)
• fastened4 of 68 (6 percent)
• blown3 of 68 (4 percent)
• blowing2 of 68 (3 percent)
• clap2 of 68 (3 percent)

Three places to read Taqa

• Genesis 31:25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
• Judges 7:19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
• Proverbs 6:1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Taqa in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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