Joel 2:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תִּקְע֨וּ שׁוֹפָ֜ר בְּצִיּ֗וֹן וְהָרִ֙יעוּ֙ בְּהַ֣ר קָדְשִׁ֔י יִרְגְּז֕וּ כֹּ֖ל יֹשְׁבֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ כִּֽי־בָ֥א יוֹם־יְהוָ֖ה כִּ֥י קָרֽוֹב׃

Transliteration

Tiqʿû shôfār in Tsiyôn and hārîʿû in har qodshî yirgezû all yōshebê the hāʾārets because-bāʾ yôm-YHWH because qārôb.

Grammar Details

• *Tiqʿû*: imperative, 2nd person plural - blow/sound [command]
• *shôfār*: masculine singular noun - trumpet/ram's horn
• *Tsiyôn*: proper noun - Zion
• *hārîʿû*: hiphil imperative, 2nd person plural - sound an alarm/shout
• *har*: masculine singular construct - mountain of
• *qodshî*: masculine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - my holiness/my holy
• *yirgezû*: qal imperfect, 3rd person plural - they will tremble/be agitated
• *yōshebê*: masculine plural construct participle - inhabitants of/dwellers of
• *hāʾārets*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the land/the earth
• *bāʾ*: qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - has come
• *yôm*: masculine singular construct - day of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the divine name
• *qārôb*: masculine singular adjective - near/at hand

Word Meanings

• *Tiqʿû*: blow/sound/blast
• *shôfār*: ram's horn/trumpet
• *hārîʿû*: sound an alarm/shout/make a loud noise
• *yirgezû*: tremble/be agitated/be disturbed
• *hāʾārets*: the land/the earth/the ground
• *bāʾ*: has come/is coming
• *qārôb*: near/imminent/approaching

Referenced Verses

• Jer 4:5 : 5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
• Joel 1:15 : 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
• Joel 2:15 : 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
• Obad 1:15 : 15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
• Amos 3:6 : 6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
• Zeph 1:16 : 16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
• Joel 3:17 : 17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
• Hos 5:8 : 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
• Jer 5:22 : 22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
• Num 10:5-9 : 5 When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward. 6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys. 7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. 8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations. 9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
• 1 Chr 15:28 : 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
• Ezra 9:3-4 : 3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied. 4 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
• Ps 87:1 : 1 A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
• Ps 119:120 : 120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
• Isa 2:12 : 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
• Isa 66:2 : 2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
• Isa 66:5 : 5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
• Jer 16:7 : 7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
• Jer 16:10 : 10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
• Ezek 7:5-7 : 5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. 6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. 7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
• Ezek 7:10 : 10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
• Ezek 7:12 : 12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
• Ezek 12:23 : 23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
• Ezek 33:3 : 3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
• Ezek 33:6 : 6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
• Dan 6:26 : 26 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.
• Dan 9:16 : 16 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
• Dan 9:20 : 20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
• Hos 8:1 : 1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
• Amos 8:2 : 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
• Zeph 1:14 : 14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
• Zeph 3:11 : 11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
• Zech 8:3 : 3 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
• Mal 4:1 : 1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• 1 Thess 5:2 : 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
• Jas 5:8 : 8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
• 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
• Num 10:3 : 3 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
• Phil 2:12 : 12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.