Dictionaries :: Trump, Trumpet

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Trump, Trumpet:

is used

(1) of the natural instrument, 1Cr 14:8;

(2) of the supernatural accompaniment of Divine interpositions,

(a) at Sinai, Hbr 12:19;

(b) of the acts of angels at the Second Advent of Christ, Mat 24:31;

(c) of their acts in the period of Divine judgments preceding this, Rev 8:2, 6, 13; 9:14;

(d) of a summons to John to the presence of God, Rev 1:10; 4:1;

(e) of the act of the Lord in raising from the dead the saints who have fallen asleep and changing the bodies of those who are living, at the Rapture of all to meet Him in the air, 1Cr 15:52, where "the last trump" is a military allusion, familiar to Greek readers, and has no connection with the series in Rev 8:6 to 11:15; there is a possible allusion to Num 10:2-6, with reference to the same event, 1Th 4:16, "the (lit., a) trump of God" (the absence of the article suggests the meaning "a trumpet such as is used in God's service").

Trump, Trumpet:

"to sound a trumpet," Mat 6:2; as in (2) (c) above, Rev 8:6-8, 10, 12, 13; 9:1, 13; 10:7; 11:15; as in (2) (e) 1Cr 15:52.