A SHOUT or BLAST — the loud collective noise made by a crowd or by a ram's horn. It is the war-cry of an army (Joshua 6:5, 20, at the walls of Jericho), the acclamation that greeted the ark (1 Samuel 4:5), and the sound that names a festival: Leviticus 23:24 calls the first day of the seventh month a 'memorial of teru'ah', which is why the Jewish new year is a day of shofar blasts. ⚠ Amos uses it as the noise inside a burning city (1:14) — the only oracle of the eight that accelerates into sound, war-cry and whirlwind on top of the fire. Psalm 27:6 turns the same word toward worship — 'sacrifices with a teru'ah' — the identical noise that felled a wall now offered at an altar. ⚠ Numbers 10:5-7 (already on these pages) gives it a job none of those passages needed: a TECHNICAL SIGNAL. There, a teru'ah on the silver trumpets means 'break camp and march,' and a plain sustained blast on the same instruments means 'assemble' — 'you shall blow, but you shall not sound a teru'ah' (10:7). The difference between two national-scale orders is carried entirely by the shape of the note. ⭐ Numbers 23:21 supplies the last of its CONSTRUCT forms: searched across the archived text, teru'at stands in exactly four verses — two of them a war-cry (Jeremiah 4:19; 49:2), one the shout of joy at the second temple's foundation (Ezra 3:13), and this one the shout of a KING. Balaam says it of a camp he is looking down at from a hilltop, whose trumpets use this same noise as the order to break camp and march. → first discussed at Amos 1:14