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. → first discussed at Amos 1:14