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Lexicon :: Strong's H6963 - qôl

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קוֹל
Transliteration
qôl
Pronunciation
kole
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to call aloud
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1998a,2028b

Strong’s Definitions

קוֹל qôwl, kole; or קֹל qôl; from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound:—+ aloud, bleating, crackling, cry (+ out), fame, lightness, lowing, noise, + hold peace, (pro-) claim, proclamation, + sing, sound, + spark, thunder(-ing), voice, + yell.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 506x

The KJV translates Strong's H6963 in the following manner: voice (383x), noise (49x), sound (39x), thunder (10x), proclamation (with H5674) (4x), send out (with H5414) (2x), thunderings (2x), fame (1x), miscellaneous (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 506x
The KJV translates Strong's H6963 in the following manner: voice (383x), noise (49x), sound (39x), thunder (10x), proclamation (with H5674) (4x), send out (with H5414) (2x), thunderings (2x), fame (1x), miscellaneous (16x).
  1. voice, sound, noise

    1. voice

    2. sound (of instrument)

  2. lightness, frivolity

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קוֹל qôwl, kole; or קֹל qôl; from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound:—+ aloud, bleating, crackling, cry (+ out), fame, lightness, lowing, noise, + hold peace, (pro-) claim, proclamation, + sing, sound, + spark, thunder(-ing), voice, + yell.
STRONGS H6963: Abbreviations
קוֺל (sometimes, with prefix and suffix, קֹל)506 noun masculineGenesis 39:14 sound, voice; — absolute קוֺל Genesis 4:10 + (הַקֹּל Genesis 27:22; Genesis 45:16); construct קוֺל Genesis 3:8 + (וְקֹל Exodus 19:16, לְקֹל Exodus 4:8 (twice in verse)); suffix קוֺלִי 1 Samuel 26:17 +, קוֺלְךָ Judges 18:25 +, etc. (קֹלִי Genesis 22:18, קֹלֶ֑ךָ Exodus 3:18, etc.); plural (usually of thunder) קֹלֹת Exodus 9:23 + 4 times, קוֺלֹת Exodus 20:18 (Gi Exodus 20:15), קֹלוֺת 1 Samuel 2:17 + 5 times; —
1. sound: especially
a. of human voice Joshua 6:10; 2 Kings 7:10; in speech Genesis 27:22 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 1:13; 1 Samuel 24:17; 1 Samuel 26:17 (twice in verse); recognized (הִכִּיר) 1 Samuel 26:17; Jeremiah 18:3; יְפֵה ק׳ Ezekiel 33:32 pleasant of voice, compare Songs 2:14 (twice in verse); Songs 8:13; in singing Exodus 32:18; 2 Samuel 19:36; Isaiah 52:8, calling Judges 9:7, shouting Exodus 32:17; 1 Samuel 4:6 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 1:40; Ezra 3:13, rejoicing Jeremiah 7:34 (4 times in verse) = Jeremiah 16:9; Jeremiah 25:10; Jeremiah 33:11, praise Psalm 66:8; Psalm 26:7; Joel 2:10, laughter Jeremiah 30:19, weeping Genesis 21:16; Judges 2:4; 1 Samuel 11:4; Ruth 1:9, 14; Ezra 3:13, outcry Genesis 39:15, 18; 1 Samuel 4:14; Jeremiah 8:19, distress, lament Jeremiah 9:18; Ezekiel 27:30; Zechariah 11:3; Psalm 102:6, supplication Psalm 28:2; Psalm 28:6; Psalm 31:23; Psalm 86:6; adverb אֶחָד ק׳ with one voice Exodus 24:3; 2 Chronicles 5:13, גָּדוֺל ק׳ loud voice 2 Samuel 15:23 + (compare ג׳ בְּק׳ Genesis 39:14; 1 Samuel 28:12 +), רָם ק׳ Deuteronomy 27:14; נָשָׂא ק׳ Genesis 21:16 + (see נָשָׂא 1b (5)), הֵרִים ק׳ Genesis 39:15 + (see דום Hiph.); on ק׳ as independent noun, followed by subject + verb of calling Psalm 3:5; Psalm 27:7; Psalm 142:2 see Ges§ 144 m.
b. of י׳ Genesis 3:8, 10; Isaiah 6:8; Exodus 19:19; 1 Kings 19:3; Micah 6:9; Ezekiel 10:5 (compare also 2b) +; adverb גָּדוֺל ק׳ Deuteronomy 5:19; Ezekiel 9:1; דְּמָמָה דַקָּה ק׳ 1 Kings 19:12.
c. of seraph Isaiah 6:4.
d. of angel Daniel 8:16 (אָדָם ק׳ i.e. in human speech, compare Bev); דְּבָרָיו ק׳ Daniel 10:6, 9 (twice in verse).
e. of animals: bleating of sheep 1 Samuel 15:14, lowing of cattle 1 Samuel 15:14; Jeremiah 9:9, neighing of horses Jeremiah 8:16, roaring of lion Amos 3:4; Jeremiah 2:15 +, hissing of serpent Jeremiah 46:22 (in simile), singing of birds Nahum 2:8; Zephaniah 2:14; Psalm 104:12; Songs 2:12; Ecclesiastes 12:4.
f. exclamation, at beginning of clause, a sound of...! = hark! Genesis 4:10; Isaiah 13:4; Isaiah 40:3; Isaiah 52:8; Jeremiah 4:15; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 50:28; Songs 2:8; Songs 5:2 (Ges§ 146 b).
2. sound:
a. of instrument, especially (הַ)שֹּׁפָר ק׳ Exodus 9:16; Exodus 20:18 (Gi Exodus 20:15) Amos 2:2; 1 Kings 1:41 +, חֲצֹצְרוֺת וגו׳ 2 Chronicles 5:13, כִּנּוֺר Ezekiel 26:13, עוּנָב Job 21:12; of פַּעֲמֹנִים on high priest's robe Exodus 28:35.
b. thunder-clap or peal (compare Dr 1 Samuel 12:17), קוֺל י׳ (or קוֺלוֺ) Amos 1:2; Isaiah 30:30, 31; Jeremiah 10:13 = Jeremiah 51:16, Joel 2:11; Joel 4:16 [Joel 3:16]; Psalm 18:14 = 2 Samuel 22:14; Psalm 29:3; Psalm 29:7; Psalm 46:7; Job 37:4 (compare 1 Samuel 7:10; Psalm 77:18; Psalm 77:19; Psalm 104:7), so especially plural absolute (see above) Exodus 9:23, 28, 29, 33, 34; Exodus 19:16; Exodus 20:18 (Gi Exodus 20:15), 1 Samuel 7:10; 1 Samuel 12:17, 18; Job 28:26 = Job 38:25.
c. קוֺל רַגְלֶיהָ 1 Kings 14:6 compare 2 Kings 6:32, and (probably) Genesis 3:8; also (הַ)צְּעָדָה ק׳ 2 Samuel 5:24 = 1 Chronicles 14:15; of runners 2 Kings 11:13; 2 Chronicles 23:12.
d. stamping of hoofs Jeremiah 47:3; Ezekiel 26:10) + chariots, etc.), compare 1 Kings 1:41.
e. of chariots Nahum 3:2; Joel 2:5; wheels Ezekiel 3:13; whip Nahum 3:2.
f. of sea, and great waters Habakkuk 3:10; Ezekiel 1:24; Ezekiel 43:2; Psalm 93:3; Psalm 93:4, compare Jeremiah 50:42 (in simile); צִנּוֺרֶיךָ ק׳ Psalm 42:8.
g. earthquake Ezekiel 37:7.
i. of a multitude 1 Samuel 4:14; Isaiah 13:4; Ezekiel 23:42.
l. flame Joel 2:5; crackling of thorns Ecclesiastes 7:6; rustling of leaves Leviticus 26:36.
3. of articulate speech, thing said:
a.
(1) often of human advice, command, entreaty Genesis 3:17; Genesis 4:23; Exodus 3:18; Exodus 4:1, 9; Deuteronomy 1:45; Deuteronomy 21:18 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 21:20; 1 Samuel 2:25; 1 Samuel 8:7, 9; 2 Samuel 12:18; דִּבְרֵיכֶם ק׳ Deuteronomy 1:34; Deuteronomy 5:25; even of written words 2 Kings 10:6; so also הָאֹת ק׳ Exodus 4:8 (twice in verse) voice (teaching) of the sign.
(2) of a report Genesis 45:16; Ecclesiastes 10:20.
(4) אָלָה ק׳ Leviticus 5:1 utterance of adjuration.
b. often (especially Deuteronomy, Jeremiah) of words of י׳ Genesis 22:18; Genesis 26:5; Exodus 5:2; Exodus 15:26; Exodus 19:5; Deuteronomy 8:20; Deuteronomy 9:23; Deuteronomy 13:15; Deuteronomy 13:19 +, Judges 2:2, 20; Judges 6:10; 1 Samuel 12:14, 15; 1 Samuel 15:1, 19, 20, 22; Jeremiah 3:13, 25; Jeremiah 7:23 +; of מַלְאַךְ י׳ Exodus 23:21, 22. — קֹל Jeremiah 3:9 see below קלל.

קֹל noun [masculine] lightness, frivolity (so Vrss Ki Gie; Gf thinks = קָלוֺן; > = voice); — מִקֹּל זְנוּנָהּ Jeremiah 3:9. — קֹל voice, see קוֺל above.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:8; 3:8; 3:8; 3:10; 3:17; 4:10; 4:10; 4:23; 21:16; 21:16; 22:18; 22:18; 26:5; 27:22; 27:22; 39:14; 39:14; 39:15; 39:15; 39:18; 45:16; 45:16

Exodus

3:18; 3:18; 4:1; 4:8; 4:8; 4:9; 5:2; 9:16; 9:23; 9:23; 9:28; 9:29; 9:33; 9:34; 15:26; 19:5; 19:16; 19:16; 19:19; 20:15; 20:15; 20:15; 20:18; 20:18; 20:18; 23:21; 23:22; 24:3; 28:35; 32:17; 32:17; 32:18; 36:6

Leviticus

5:1; 26:36

Deuteronomy

1:34; 1:45; 5:19; 5:25; 8:20; 9:23; 13:15; 21:18; 21:20; 27:14

Joshua

6:10

Judges

2:2; 2:4; 2:20; 6:10; 9:7; 18:25

Ruth

1:9; 1:14

1 Samuel

1:13; 2:17; 2:25; 4:6; 4:14; 4:14; 7:10; 7:10; 8:7; 8:9; 11:4; 12:14; 12:15; 12:17; 12:17; 12:18; 15:1; 15:14; 15:14; 15:19; 15:20; 15:22; 24:17; 26:17; 26:17; 26:17; 28:12

2 Samuel

5:24; 12:18; 15:23; 19:36; 22:14

1 Kings

1:40; 1:41; 1:41; 14:6; 19:3; 19:12

2 Kings

6:32; 7:10; 10:6; 11:13

1 Chronicles

14:15

2 Chronicles

5:13; 5:13; 23:12; 24:9; 30:5; 36:22

Ezra

1:1; 3:13; 3:13; 10:7

Nehemiah

8:15

Job

21:12; 28:26; 37:4; 38:25

Psalms

3:5; 18:14; 26:7; 27:7; 28:2; 28:6; 29:3; 29:7; 31:23; 42:8; 46:7; 66:8; 77:18; 77:19; 86:6; 93:3; 93:4; 102:6; 104:7; 104:12; 142:2

Ecclesiastes

7:6; 10:20; 12:4; 12:4

Song of Songs

2:8; 2:12; 2:14; 5:2; 8:13

Isaiah

6:4; 6:8; 13:4; 13:4; 30:30; 30:31; 40:3; 52:8; 52:8

Jeremiah

2:15; 3:9; 3:9; 3:13; 3:25; 4:15; 7:23; 7:34; 8:16; 8:19; 9:9; 9:18; 10:13; 10:22; 16:9; 18:3; 25:10; 25:10; 30:19; 33:11; 46:22; 47:3; 49:21; 50:22; 50:28; 50:42; 50:46; 51:16; 51:55

Lamentations

2:7

Ezekiel

1:24; 1:24; 3:13; 3:13; 9:1; 10:5; 10:5; 23:42; 26:10; 26:13; 26:15; 27:30; 31:16; 33:32; 37:7; 43:2

Daniel

8:16; 10:6; 10:9

Joel

2:5; 2:5; 2:10; 2:11; 3:16

Amos

1:2; 2:2; 3:4

Micah

6:9

Nahum

2:8; 3:2; 3:2

Habakkuk

3:10

Zephaniah

2:14

Zechariah

11:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6963 matches the Hebrew קוֹל (qôl),
which occurs 506 times in 436 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 9 (Num 14:1–Jdg 2:20)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:1 -

Then all the congregation [fn]lifted up their voices H6963 and cried, and the people wept [fn]that night.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:22 - “Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice H6963,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:34 - Then all Israel who were around them fled at their [fn]outcry H6963, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:16 - ‘So we cried out to Yahweh, and He heard our voice H6963 and sent an angel and brought us out from Egypt; now behold, we are at Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:3 - Then Yahweh heard the voice H6963 of Israel and gave the Canaanites over; so they devoted them and their cities to destruction. Thus the name of the place was called [fn]Hormah.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:34 -

“Then Yahweh heard the sound H6963 of your words, and He was angry and swore an oath, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:45 - “Then you returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh did not listen to your voice H6963 nor give ear to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:12 - “Then Yahweh spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound H6963 of words, but you saw no form—only a voice H6963.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:30 - “When you are in distress and all these things have come upon you, in the last days you will return to Yahweh your God and listen to His voice H6963.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:33 - “Has any people heard the voice H6963 of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and lived?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:36 - “Out of the heavens He caused you to hear His voice H6963 to discipline you; and on earth He caused you to see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:22 -

“These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the dense gloom, with a great voice H6963, and He added no more. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23 - “Now it happened that when you heard the voice H6963 from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:24 - “And you said, ‘Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice H6963 from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with man, yet he lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:25 - ‘So now then why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice H6963 of Yahweh our God any longer, then we will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:26 - ‘For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice H6963 of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:28 -

“And Yahweh heard the voice H6963 of your words when you spoke to me, and Yahweh said to me, ‘I have heard the voice H6963 of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:20 - “Like the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you would not listen to the voice H6963 of Yahweh your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:23 - “When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the [fn]command of Yahweh your God; you did not believe Him, and you did not listen to His voice H6963.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:4 - “You shall walk after Yahweh your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice H6963, serve Him, and cling to Him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18 - [fn]if you will listen to the voice H6963 of Yahweh your God, [fn]keeping all His commandments which I am commanding you today, [fn]and doing what is right in the sight of Yahweh your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - if only you listen obediently to the voice H6963 of Yahweh your God, to be careful to do all this commandment which I am commanding you today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:16 - “This is according to all that you asked of Yahweh your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice H6963 of Yahweh my God; let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:18 -

“If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey H6963 his father or his mother, and when they discipline him, he will not even listen to them,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:20 - “Then they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not listen to our voice H6963; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:7 - ‘Then we cried out to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice H6963 and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:14 - ‘I have not eaten of it [fn]while mourning, nor have I purged any of it while I was unclean, nor have I given any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice H6963 of Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:17 - “You have today declared Yahweh to be your God, and [fn]that you would walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and listen to His voice H6963.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:10 - “You shall therefore listen to the voice H6963 of Yahweh your God and do His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:14 - “The Levites shall then answer and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice H6963,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:1 -

“Now it will be, if you diligently listen to the voice H6963 of Yahweh your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I am commanding you today, Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:2 - “And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you listen to the voice H6963 of Yahweh your God:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:15 -

“But it will be, if you do not listen to the voice H6963 of Yahweh your God, to keep and to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45 -

“So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not listen to the voice H6963 of Yahweh your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - “Then you shall remain few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not listen to the voice H6963 of Yahweh your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:2 - and you return to Yahweh your God and listen to His voice H6963 with all your heart and soul according to all that I am commanding you today, you and your sons,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:8 - “And you shall return and listen to the voice H6963 of Yahweh, and you shall do all His commandments which I am commanding you today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:10 - [fn]when you listen to the voice H6963 of Yahweh your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, [fn]when you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:20 - by loving Yahweh your God, by listening to His voice H6963, and by holding fast to Him; for [fn]this is your life and the length of your days, [fn]that you may live in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:7 -

And this regarding Judah; so he said,

“Hear, O Yahweh, the voice H6963 of Judah,

And bring him to his people.

With his hands he contended for [fn]them,

And may You be a help against his adversaries.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - For the sons of Israel had walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, were completely destroyed because they did not listen to the voice H6963 of Yahweh, to whom Yahweh had sworn that He would not let them see the land which Yahweh had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:5 - “And it will be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound H6963 of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down [fn]beneath itself, and the people will go up every man [fn]straight ahead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:10 - But Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout nor let your voice H6963 be heard nor let a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you, ‘Shout!’ Then you shall shout!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:20 - So the people shouted, and [fn]the priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound H6963 of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down [fn]beneath itself, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight [fn]ahead, and they took the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:14 - And there was no day like that before it or after it, when Yahweh listened to the voice H6963 of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:2 - and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you and have listened to my voice H6963 in all that I commanded you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:24 - And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to His voice H6963.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:2 - and as for you, you shall cut no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not listened to My voice H6963; what is this you have done?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:4 - So it happened that when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voices H6963 and wept.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:20 - So the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has trespassed against My covenant which I commanded their fathers and has not listened to My voice H6963,

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