The word in Scripture

Trumpet in the Bible

The word trumpet appears 61 times in the King James Version of the Bible. A trumpet sounds the alarm, the gathering, and the coming of the King. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What trumpet means in the Bible

A trumpet sounds the alarm, the gathering, and the coming of the King.

Where the word trumpet appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word trumpet appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.”Psalms 47:5

“Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.”Psalms 81:3

“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.”Isaiah 58:1

“Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.”Matthew 6:2

“And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”Matthew 24:31

“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”1 Corinthians 15:52

“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,”Revelation 1:10

“Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.”Revelation 9:14