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Lexicon :: Strong's G5456 - phōnē

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φωνή
Transliteration
phōnē (Key)
Pronunciation
fo-nay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably akin to φαίνω (G5316) through the idea of disclosure
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 9:278,1287

Trench's Synonyms: lxxxix. φωνή, λόγος.

Strong’s Definitions

φωνή phōnḗ, fo-nay'; probably akin to G5316 through the idea of disclosure; a tone (articulate, bestial or artificial); by implication, an address (for any purpose), saying or language:—noise, sound, voice.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 141x

The KJV translates Strong's G5456 in the following manner: voice (131x), sound (8x), be noised abroad (with G1096) (1x), noise (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 141x
The KJV translates Strong's G5456 in the following manner: voice (131x), sound (8x), be noised abroad (with G1096) (1x), noise (1x).
  1. a sound, a tone

    1. of inanimate things, as musical instruments

  2. a voice

    1. of the sound of uttered words

  3. speech

    1. of a language, tongue

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
φωνή phōnḗ, fo-nay'; probably akin to G5316 through the idea of disclosure; a tone (articulate, bestial or artificial); by implication, an address (for any purpose), saying or language:—noise, sound, voice.
STRONGS G5456:
φωνή, φωνῆς, (φάω) to shine, make clear (cf. Curtius, § 407; Liddell and Scott, under the word φάω)), from Homer down, Hebrew קול:
1. a sound, tone: of inanimate things, as of musical instruments, Matthew 24:31 (T omits φωνῆς, WH give it only in marginal reading; cf. Buttmann, § 132, 10); 1 Corinthians 14:7; Revelation 14:2; Revelation 18:22 (Isaiah 18:3; Isaiah 24:8; Sir. 50:16; 1 Macc. 5:31; ὀργάνων, Plato, de rep. 3, p. 397a; συριγγων, Euripides, Tro. 127; ψαλτηρίου καί αὐλοῦ, Plutarch, mor., p. 713 c.); of wind, John 3:8; Acts 2:6; of thunder, Revelation 6:1; Revelation 14:2; Revelation 19:6, cf. Revelation 4:5; 8:5; 11:19; 16:18; noise, of a millstone, Revelation 18:22; of a thronging multitude, Revelation 19:1, 6; of chariots, Revelation 9:9; of wings, whir (Ezekiel 1:24), ibid.; of waters (Ezekiel 1:24; 4 Esdr. 6:17 [2 Esdras 6:17]), Revelation 1:15; Revelation 14:2; Revelation 19:6; also with the genitive of a thing implying speech, the sound (A. V. voice): τοῦ ἀσπασμοῦ, Luke 1:44; ῤημάτων, Hebrews 12:19; the cry (of men), φωνή μεγάλη, a loud cry, Mark 15:37; the clamor of men making a noisy demand, Luke 23:28, cf. Acts 19:34; absolutely, a cry i. e. wailing, lamentation, Matthew 2:18 (from Jeremiah 38:15 (Jer. 31:15)).
2. a voice, i. e. the sound of uttered words: λαλεῖν φωνάς, Revelation 10:3; those who begin to cry out or call to anyone are said τήν φωνήν αἴρειν, Luke 17:13; πρός τινα, Acts 4:24; φωνήν ἐπαίρειν, Luke 11:27; Acts 2:14; Acts 14:11; Acts 22:22; (φωνῆς... ἐκέκραξα (or ἐκκράζειν), Acts 24:21 (cf. Buttmann, § 143, 11)); φωνή μεγάλη added to verbs: to λέγειν, Revelation 5:12; Revelation 8:13; (ἐν φωνή μεγάλη Revelation 14:7 (Lachmann omits ἐν; Rev. 14:9)); to εἰπεῖν, Luke 8:28; Acts 14:10; to φάναι, Acts 26:24; to αἰνεῖν τόν Θεόν, Luke 19:37; with verbs of crying out, shouting: ἀναβοαν, Matthew 27:46 (R G L text T); βοᾶν (Matthew 27:46 L marginal reading Tr WH); Mark 15:34; Acts 8:7; φώνειν, (Mark 1:26 T Tr WH); Luke 23:46; Acts 16:28; (Revelation 14:18 L T Tr WH); ἀναφωνεῖν, Luke 1:42 (R G L Tr marginal reading); κηρύσσειν (ἐν φωνή μεγάλη), Revelation 5:2 (Rec. omits ἐν); κραυγάζειν, John 11:43; ἀνακράζειν, Luke 4:33; κράζειν. Matthew 27:50; Mark 1:26 (R G L); Mark 5:7; Acts 7:57, 60; Revelation 6:10; Revelation 7:2, 10; Revelation 10:3; (Revelation 18:2 Rec.); Rev. 19:17; κράζων ἐν φωνή μεγάλη Revelation 14:15; ἐν ἰσχυρά φωνή, Revelation 18:2 (G L T Tr WH); μετά φωνῆς μεγάλης δοξάζων τόν Θεόν, Luke 17:15; of declarations from heaven, heard through no speaker is seen: ἰδού φωνή λέγουσα, Matthew 3:17; Matthew 17:5; ἔρχεται φωνή, Mark 9:7 (R G L Tr text); John 12:28; ἐξέρχεται, Revelation 16:17; Revelation 19:5; γίνεται φωνή, Mark 1:11 (T omits; WH brackets ἐγένετο; Mark 9:7 T Tr marginal reading WH); Luke 3:22; Luke 9:35; John 12:30; (Acts 7:31 (where Rec. adds πρός αὐτόν)); πρός τινα, Acts 10:13, 15; (φωνῆς ἐνεχθείσης αὐτῷ, 2 Peter 1:17); ἐγένοντο φωναί μεγάλαι, Revelation 11:15; (ἀπεκρίθη φωνή, Acts 11:9); ἀκούειν φωνήν (cl. Buttmann, §§ 132, 17; 144, 16 α.), Acts 9:4; Acts 22:9,(14); Acts 26:14; 2 Peter 1:18; Revelation 1:10; Revelation 4:1 (Buttmann, § 129, 8 b.); Revelation 6:6 (here L T Tr WH insert ὡς), Revelation 6:7 (here G omits; Tr brackets φωνήν); Revelation 9:13 (Buttmann, as above); Revelation 10:4,8; 11:12 (R G L WH marginal reading); Rev. 12:10; 14:2; 18:4; 19:6; ἀκούειν φωνῆς (Buttmann, § 132, 17; Winer's Grammar, § 30, 7d.), Acts 9:7; Acts 11:7; Acts 22:7; Rev. (Revelation 11:12 T Tr WH text); Rev 14:13; 16:1; 21:3; βλέπειν τήν φωνήν, i. e. the one who uttered the voice, Revelation 1:12. φωνή with a genitive of the subject: βοῶντος, Matthew 3:3; Mark 1:3; Luke 3:4; John 1:23, all from Isaiah 40:3; (ἀγγέλου ὅταν μέλλῃ σαλπίζειν, Revelation 10:7); φωνή τίνος, the natural (familiar) sound of one's voice, Acts 12:14; Revelation 3:20 (Song of Solomon 5:2); the manner of speaking, as a shepherd's (cry or call to iris sheep), John 10:3-5; to such 'voices' Jesus likens his precepts approved (`heard') by all the good, John 10:16, 27, cf. 18:37; ἀνθρώπου, human utterance, 2 Peter 2:16; φωνή τίνος, the voice of a clamorous person, Matthew 12:19 (Isaiah 42:2); of one exulting, jubilant, John 3:29; Revelation 18:23; ἀγγέλων πολλῶν, singing the praises of Christ, Revelation 5:11f; the sound of the words of Christ as he shall recall the dead to life (the Resurrection-cry), John 5:25, 28; ἀρχαγγέλου, the awakening shout of the archangel, the leader of the angelic host, 1 Thessalonians 4:16; τοῦ Θεοῦ, of God — teaching, admonishing, whether in the O. T. Scriptures or in the gospel, John 5:37; Hebrews 3:7, 15; Hebrews 4:7; shaking the earth, Hebrews 12:26; the speech, discourse, Θεοῦ... οὐκ ἀνθρώπου, Acts 12:22; (τάς φωνάς τῶν προφητῶν, the predictions (`read every sabbath'), Acts 13:27); ἀλλάξαι τήν φωνήν. (See ἀλλάσσω), Galatians 4:20. 3. speech, i. e. a language, tongue: 1 Corinthians 14:10f (Josephus, contra Apion 1, 1; (1, 9, 2; 1, 14, 1, etc.); Cebes () tab. 33; Aelian v. h. 12, 48; (Diogenes Laërtius 8, 3; for other examples from Greek writings see Passow, under the word, p. 2377{b}; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 3); Genesis 11:1; Deuteronomy 28:49; τῇ Ἑβραΐδι φωνή, 4 Macc. 12:7; τῇ πατρίῳ φωνή, 2 Macc. 7:8, 21, 27). (Synonym: cf. Schmidt, chapter 1 § 27; Trench, § lxxxix.; and see λαλέω, at the beginning.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
11:1
Deuteronomy
28:49
Ezra
6:17
Song of Songs
5:2
Isaiah
18:3; 24:8; 40:3; 42:2
Jeremiah
31:15; 38:15
Ezekiel
1:24; 1:24; 4
Matthew
2:18; 3:3; 3:17; 12:19; 17:5; 24:31; 27:46; 27:46; 27:50
Mark
1:3; 1:11; 1:26; 1:26; 5:7; 9:7; 9:7; 15:34; 15:37
Luke
1:42; 1:44; 3:4; 3:22; 4:33; 8:28; 9:35; 11:27; 17:13; 17:15; 19:37; 23:28; 23:46
John
1:23; 3:8; 3:29; 5:25; 5:28; 5:37; 10:3; 10:4; 10:5; 10:16; 10:27; 11:43; 12:28; 12:30; 18:37
Acts
2:6; 2:14; 4:24; 7:31; 7:57; 7:60; 8:7; 9:4; 9:7; 10:13; 10:15; 11:7; 11:9; 12:14; 12:22; 13:27; 14:10; 14:11; 16:28; 19:34; 22:7; 22:9; 22:22; 24:21; 26:14; 26:24
1 Corinthians
14:7; 14:10
Galatians
4:3; 4:20
1 Thessalonians
4:16
Hebrews
3:7; 3:15; 4:7; 12:19; 12:26
2 Peter
1:17; 1:18; 2:16
Revelation
1:10; 1:12; 1:15; 3:20; 4:1; 4:5; 5:2; 5:11; 5:12; 6:1; 6:6; 6:7; 6:10; 7:2; 7:10; 8:5; 8:13; 9:9; 9:13; 10:3; 10:3; 10:4; 10:7; 10:8; 11:12; 11:12; 11:15; 11:19; 12:10; 14:2; 14:2; 14:2; 14:2; 14:7; 14:9; 14:13; 14:15; 14:18; 16:1; 16:17; 16:18; 18:2; 18:2; 18:4; 18:22; 18:22; 18:23; 19:1; 19:5; 19:6; 19:6; 19:6; 19:6; 19:17; 21:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5456 matches the Greek φωνή (phōnē),
which occurs 515 times in 447 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 9 (Gen 3:8–Lev 25:9)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8 - And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool[fn] of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:10 - And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - And to Adam he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
of which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10 - And the LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23 - Lamech said to his wives:
“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say:
I have killed a man for wounding me,
a young man for striking me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:1 - Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:4 - And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son[fn] shall be your heir.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children[fn] by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God said to Abraham, “Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:18 - and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:5 - because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:34 - As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38 - Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:43 - Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:11 - Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:6 - Then Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:14 - she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:15 - And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:18 - But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:2 - And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:16 - When the report was heard in Pharaoh’s house, “Joseph’s brothers have come,” it pleased Pharaoh and his servants.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - And they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:1 - Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:8 - “If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9 - If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:2 - But Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:23 - Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:28 - Plead with the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:29 - Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:33 - So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the LORD, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:34 - But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, your healer.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:24 - So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:5 - Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:13 - No hand shall touch him, but he shall be stoned or shot;[fn] whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:16 - On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:19 - And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:18 - Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid[fn] and trembled, and they stood far off
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:23 - If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:22 - “But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:3 - Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules.[fn] And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:35 - And it shall be on Aaron when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the Holy Place before the LORD, and when he comes out, so that he does not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:17 - When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:18 - But he said, “It is not the sound of shouting for victory, or the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:1 - “If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:9 - Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.

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