shofar
or sho·phar
a ram's horn blown as a wind instrument, sounded in Biblical times chiefly to communicate signals in battle and announce certain religious occasions and in modern times chiefly at synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Origin of shofar
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How to use shofar in a sentence
The sounds of the shofar are very peculiar and harsh, quite unlike the notes of any modern instrument.
Bible Animals; | J. G. WoodThe shrill call of the shofar, or the soft sense-enslaving tones of the organ?
Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch | Ulrich FrankDr. Beigel has made a most singular discovery concerning the tones of the shofar.
Bible Animals; | J. G. WoodIn the first place it never thunders at Tabernacles, and secondly, after the Rebbe's shofar-blowing!
Stories and Pictures | Isaac Loeb PeretzThen show the class a shofar or a picture of one and ask, "What is this?"
A Manual for Teaching Biblical History | Eugene Kohn
British Dictionary definitions for shofar
shophar
/ (ˈʃəʊfɑː, Hebrew ʃɔˈfar) /
Judaism a ram's horn sounded in the synagogue daily during the month of Elul and repeatedly on Rosh Hashanah, and by the ancient Israelites as a warning, summons, etc
Origin of shofar
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