Word Summary
salpizō: to sound a trumpet
Original Word: σαλπίζωTransliteration: salpizō
Phonetic Spelling: (sal-pid'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to sound a trumpet
Meaning: to sound a trumpet
Strong's Concordance
to sound a trumpet
From salpigx; to trumpet, i.e. Sound a blast (literally or figuratively) -- (which are yet to) sound (a trumpet).
see GREEK salpigx
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4537: σαλπίζωσαλπίζω; future
σαλπίσω (for the earlier
σαλπιγξω, see Lob. ad. Phryn., p. 191; the
Sept. also
σαλπιῶ, as
Numbers 10:(3),5,8,10); 1 aorist
ἐσαλπισα (also in the
Sept.;
Aelian v. h. 1, 26 and other later writings (cf.
Veitch, under the word), for the earlier
ἐσαλπιγξα,
Xenophon, anab. 1, 2, 17) (cf.
Winers Grammar, 89 (85);
Buttmann, 37 (32);
WHs Appendix, p. 170); from
Homer down; the
Sept. chiefly for
תָּקַע , also for
חִצֵּר;
to sound a trumpet (
A. V. (mostly)
sound):
Revelation 8:6-10, 12;
Revelation 9:1, 13;
Revelation 10:7;
Revelation 11:15;
σαλπίσει (strictly namely,
ὁ σαλπιστής or
ἡ σάλπιγξ), like our
the trumpet will sound (cf.
Winer's Grammar, § 58, 9b.
β.; (
Buttmann, § 129, 16)),
1 Corinthians 15:52;
σαλπίζειν ἔμπροσθεν ἑαυτοῦ, i. e. to take care that what we do comes to everybody's ears, make a great noise about it (cf. our do a thing 'with a flourish of trumpets'),
Matthew 6:2 (
Cicero, ad div. 16, 21
quod polliceris, te buccinatorem fore nostrae existimationis;
Achilles Tatius 8, 10
αὕτη οὐχ ὑπό σάλπιγγι μόνον,
ἀλλά καί κηρυκι μοιχεύεται).