σάλπιγξ

Matthew 24:31 σάλπιγγος a trumpet call

And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

Here: A signal horn or trumpet. In the Greek Old Testament this word translates both the ram's-horn shofar and the silver trumpets. It gives a signal to assemble, march or celebrate; it is not playing music.

1 Corinthians 14:8 σάλπιγξ [the] trumpet

Again, if the trumpet sounds a muffled call, who will prepare for battle?

1 Corinthians 15:52 σάλπιγγι· trumpet;

in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

Here: The Greek word the Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament) used for both the ram's-horn shofar and the metal trumpet. In Israel's scriptures it was the signal for assembly, battle, festival and the Day of the LORD.

1 Thessalonians 4:16 σάλπιγγι [the] trumpet

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.

Here: The signal trumpet. Behind it stands the Hebrew shofar (ram's horn) blown at Sinai, for assembling Israel, for war, and in the prophets for the great ingathering of scattered Israel (Isaiah 27:13).

Hebrews 12:19 σάλπιγγος of a trumpet

to a trumpet blast or to a voice that made its hearers beg that no further word be spoken.

Revelation 1:10 σάλπιγγος of a trumpet

On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

Here: The salpinx, a straight metal signal trumpet used for war, for summoning assemblies, and in the Greek Old Testament for God's appearing at Sinai. The voice sounds like a summons and an announcement from God.

Revelation 4:1 σάλπιγγος a trumpet

After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”

Here: A trumpet. In the Greek Old Testament it is the instrument heard when God came down on Sinai (Exodus 19:16, 19) and the signal for assemblies, battle and festivals. The voice is loud, commanding, and sounds like God appearing.

Revelation 8:2 σάλπιγγες.¶ trumpets.

And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets.

Here: A signal instrument, not a musical one. It was used for alarms of war, summoning assemblies, announcing a king, and above all for God's appearing and the Day of the LORD. Handing out trumpets means judgment is about to be announced and launched.

Revelation 8:6 σάλπιγγας trumpets

And the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

Here: Signal horns, used in the ancient world for war, for calling people together, and for worship. They were not instruments for playing tunes. Here they announce God's judgments.

Revelation 8:13 σάλπιγγος trumpet

And as I observed, I heard an eagle flying overhead, calling in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the remaining three angels!”

Here: Singular in Greek ('the voices of the trumpet'), used in a general sense: each angel's trumpet. It recalls Israel's alarm signals for war and for the Day of the LORD.

Revelation 9:14 σάλπιγγα· trumpet;

saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

Here: The war-and-alarm trumpet of Israel's tradition. Its mention ties the coming release directly to the signal just given.