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SCHOFAR See also:SHOFAR or SHOFER, the See also:ancient See also:ram's See also:horn See also:trumpet of the See also:Hebrews, sometimes also translated See also:cornet in the See also:English See also:Bible . The See also:shofar consisted of a natural horn turned up at the See also:bell end, and, having a See also:short conical See also:bore of very large calibre, it would be capable of producing at most the fundamental See also:octave and twelfth . The shofar has continued in use in the Jewish See also:synagogue until the See also:present See also:day, being blown with See also:great solemnity once every See also:year at the impressive service held on the Day of See also:Atonement . The shofar was more generally used by the Israelites than the other horn Keren, and although figuring largely as a See also:signal See also:instrument in See also:battle, and used for rousing the See also:people against the foe, it can hardly be regarded as a military instrument, but rather as the token of See also:God's presence in their midst, to give them the victory as in the See also:case of See also:Joshua and See also:Gideon . It was the shofar that was used to See also:call the people together on a See also:solemn feast day (Ps. lxxxi . 3) . (K . |
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