Alarm
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (v. t.) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
(2): (n.) A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
(3): (n.) Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
(4): (n.) A sudden attack; disturbance; broil.
(5): (n.) Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
(6): (n.) A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum.
(7): (v. t.) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
(8): (v. t.) To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
Holman Bible Dictionary [2]
Numbers 10:1-10 Numbers 10:5-6 Numbers 10:7 Numbers 10:9 Numbers 31:6 2 Chronicles 13:12 Joshua 6:1 Leviticus 25:9 1 Samuel 4:5 Jeremiah 4:19 Hosea 5:8 Joel 2:1
King James Dictionary [3]
AL'ARM, n.
1. Any sound, outcry or information intended to give notice of approaching danger as, to sound an alarm. 2. A summon to arms. 3. Sudden surprise with fear or terror as, the fire or the enemy excited an alarm. 4. Terror a sensation excited by an apprehension of danger, from whatever cause as, we felt an alarm at the cry of fire. 5. In fencing, an appeal or challenge.
Easton's Bible Dictionary [4]
Numbers 10:5,6 Jeremiah 4:19 49:2 Zephaniah 1:16
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
a - larm ´ (תּרוּעה , terū‛āh ): This expression is found six times in the Old Testament. The Hebrew word so rendered is derived from a verb meaning "to shout" or "blow a horn," as a signal for breaking up camp, starting on a journey or into battle, or in triumphant shout over the defeat of enemies. In a few instances it is employed of a cry of despair or distress. The noun terū‛āh translated "alarm" in Numbers 10:5 f refers to the signal given the people of Israel to start on their journey in the Wilderness. The passages in Jer ( Jeremiah 4:19; Jeremiah 49:2 ) both refer to the summons for war. The same is true of Zephaniah 1:16 .
The law concerning the sounding of the alarm is fully stated in Numbers 10:1-10 . Here we read that two silver trumpets of beaten work were sounded by the sons of Aaron in case of war and also "in the day of ... gladness" to gather the people together for the various feasts, new moons, sacrifices and offerings.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [6]
( תְּרוּעָה , Teruah', a loud Sound or Shout, As often), a broken quivering sound of the silver trumpets of the Hebrew, warning them in their journey in the wilderness ( Numbers 10:5-6; comp. Leviticus 23:24; Leviticus 25:9). When the people or the rulers were to be assembled together, the trumpet was blown softly; when the camps were to move forward, or the people to march to war, it was sounded with a deeper note (Jahn, Bibl. Archaeol. § 95, 5). Hence a warnote or call to arms, or other public exigency in general ( Jeremiah 4:19; Jeremiah 49:2; Zephaniah 1:16). (See Trumpet).
