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alarm

Meaning of “alarm”

Sense 1: A warning of danger or call to arms. Sense 2: As a verb, to warn or arouse fear.

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10 occurrences9 verses5 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Numbers 10:5

Complete exact-word concordance

Every verse containing “alarm”

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Numbers 10:5
When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 10:5 · retained source text

When ye blow an alarme, then the campes that lie on the East parts, shall goe forward.

Numbers 10:6
When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 10:6 · retained source text

When you blow an alarme the second time, then the campes that lye on the Southside, shall take their iourney: they shall blow an alarme for their iourneys.

Numbers 10:7
But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 10:7 · retained source text

But when the Congregation is to be gathered together, you shal blow: but you shall not sound an alarme.

Numbers 10:9
And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 10:9 · retained source text

And if ye goe to warre in your land, against the enemie that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarme with the trumpets, and ye shalbe remembred before the LORD your God, and yee shalbe saued from your enemies.

2 Chronicles 13:12
And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the Lord God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 13:12 · retained source text

And behold, God himselfe is with vs for our captaine, and his Priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarme against you: O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers, for you shall not prosper.

Jeremiah 4:19
¶ My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 4:19 · retained source text

¶ My bowels, my bowels, I am pained at my very heart, my heart maketh a noise in mee, I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soule, the sound of the Trumpet, the alarme of warre.

1611 marginal noteHebr. the walles of my heart.

1611 marginal noteIsa.22.4. chap.9.1.

Jeremiah 49:2
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 49:2 · retained source text

Therfore behold, the dayes come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarme of warre to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites, and it shall be a desolate heape, and her daughters shall be burnt with fire: then shall Israel be heire vnto them that were his heires, saith the LORD.

1611 marginal noteAmos. 1.14.

Joel 2:1
BLOW ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Joel 2:1 · retained source text

¶ Blow yee the trumpet in Zion, & sound an alarme in my holy mountaine: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cōmeth, for it is nie at hand;

1611 marginal noteOr, cornet.

Zephaniah 1:16
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Zephaniah 1:16 · retained source text

A day of the trumpet and alarme against the fenced cities, and against the high towres.

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