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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 7 / 9 (Isa 30:31–Jer 22:21)

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:31 - For at the voice H6963 of the LORD Assyria will be terrified,
When He strikes with the rod.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:4 - For thus says the LORD to me,
“As the lion or the young lion growls over his prey,
Against which a band of shepherds is called out,
And he will not be terrified at their voice H6963 nor disturbed at their noise,
So will the LORD of hosts come down to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:9 - Rise up, you women who are at ease,
And hear my voice; H6963
Give ear to my word,
You complacent daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:3 - At the sound H6963 of the tumult peoples flee;
At the lifting up of Yourself nations disperse.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:13 - Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice H6963 in Judean and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:23 - “Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
And against whom have you raised your voice H6963
And [fn]haughtily lifted up your eyes?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:3 - A voice H6963 [fn]is calling,
“Clear the way for the LORD in the wilderness;
Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:6 - A voice H6963 says, “Call out.”
Then [fn]he answered, “What shall I call out?”
All flesh is grass, and all its [fn]loveliness is like the flower of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:9 - Get yourself up on a high mountain,
O Zion, bearer of good news,
Lift up your voice H6963 mightily,
O Jerusalem, bearer of good news;
Lift it up, do not fear.
Say to the cities of Judah,
“Here is your God!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:2 - “He will not cry out or raise His voice,
Nor make His voice H6963 heard in the street.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:20 - Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!
Declare with the sound H6963 of joyful shouting, proclaim this,
Send it out to the end of the earth;
Say, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:10 - Who is among you that fears the LORD,
That obeys the voice H6963 of His servant,
That walks in darkness and has no light?
Let him trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 - Indeed, the LORD will comfort Zion;
He will comfort all her waste places.
And her wilderness He will make like Eden,
And her desert like the garden of the LORD;
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
Thanksgiving and sound H6963 of a melody.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:8 - Listen! H6963 Your watchmen lift up their voices, H6963
They shout joyfully together;
For they will see [fn]with their own eyes
When the LORD restores Zion.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:1 - “Cry loudly, do not hold back;
Raise your voice H6963 like a trumpet,
And declare to My people their transgression
And to the house of Jacob their sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:4 - “Behold, you fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist.
You do not fast like you do today to make your voice H6963 heard on high.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:19 - “I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people;
And there will no longer be heard in her
The voice H6963 of weeping and the sound H6963 of crying.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:6 - “A voice H6963 of uproar from the city, a voice H6963 from the temple,
The voice H6963 of the LORD who is rendering recompense to His enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - “The young lions have roared at him,
They have [fn]roared H6963 loudly. H6963
And they have made his land a waste;
His cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - “Because of the lightness H6963 of her harlotry, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:13 - ‘Only [fn]acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the LORD your God
And have scattered your [fn]favors to the strangers under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ H6963 declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:21 - A voice H6963 is heard on the bare heights,
The weeping and the supplications of the sons of Israel;
Because they have perverted their way,
They have forgotten the LORD their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:25 - “Let us lie down in our shame, and let our humiliation cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice H6963 of the LORD our God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:15 - For a voice H6963 declares from Dan,
And proclaims wickedness from Mount Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:16 - “Report it to the nations, now!
Proclaim over Jerusalem,
‘Besiegers come from a far country,
And lift their voices H6963 against the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:19 - My [fn]soul, my [fn]soul! I am in anguish! [fn]Oh, my heart!
My heart is pounding in me;
I cannot be silent,
Because [fn]you have heard, O my soul,
The sound H6963 of the trumpet,
The alarm of war.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:21 - How long must I see the standard
And hear the sound H6963 of the trumpet?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:29 - At the sound H6963 of the horseman and bowman every city flees;
They go into the thickets and climb among the rocks;
Every city is forsaken,
And no man dwells in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:31 - For I heard a [fn]cry H6963 as of a woman in labor,
The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
The [fn]cry H6963 of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,
Stretching out her [fn]hands, saying,
“Ah, woe is me, for [fn]I faint before murderers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:17 - “And I set watchmen over you, saying,
‘Listen to the sound H6963 of the trumpet!’
But they said, ‘We will not listen.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:23 - “They seize bow and spear;
They are cruel and have no mercy;
Their voice H6963 roars like the sea,
And they ride on horses,
Arrayed as a man for the battle
Against you, O daughter of Zion!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:23 - “But this is [fn]what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, H6963 and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:28 - “You shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice H6963 of the LORD their God or accept correction; [fn]truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - “Then I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice H6963 of joy and the voice H6963 of gladness, the voice H6963 of the bridegroom and the voice H6963 of the bride; for the land will become a ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:16 - From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses;
At the sound H6963 of the neighing of his stallions
The whole land quakes;
For they come and devour the land and its fullness,
The city and its inhabitants.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 - Behold, listen! H6963 The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land:
“Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”
“Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign [fn]idols?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10 - “For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing,
And for the pastures of the wilderness a dirge,
Because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
And the lowing H6963 of the cattle is not heard;
Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:13 - The LORD said, “Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice H6963 nor walked according to it,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:19 - “For a voice H6963 of wailing is heard from Zion,
‘How are we ruined!
We are put to great shame,
For we have left the land,
Because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:13 - When He utters His voice, H6963 there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth;
He makes lightning for the rain,
And brings out the wind from His storehouses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - The sound H6963 of a report! Behold, it comes
A great commotion out of the land of the north
To make the cities of Judah
A desolation, a haunt of jackals.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:4 - which I commanded your forefathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, ‘Listen to My voice, H6963 and [fn]do according to all which I command you; so you shall be My people, and I will be your God,’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:7 - ‘For I solemnly warned your fathers in the day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt, even to this day, [fn]warning persistently, saying, “Listen to My voice.” H6963
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:16 - The LORD called your name,
“A green olive tree, beautiful in fruit and form”;
With the noise H6963 of a great tumult
He has kindled fire on it,
And its branches are worthless.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:8 - “My inheritance has become to Me
Like a lion in the forest;
She has [fn]roared H6963 against Me;
Therefore I have come to hate her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:9 - For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I am going to [fn]eliminate from this place, before your eyes and in your time, the voice H6963 of rejoicing and the voice H6963 of gladness, the voice H6963 of the groom and the voice H6963 of the bride.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:10 - if it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, H6963 then I will [fn]think better of the good with which I had promised to [fn]bless it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:19 - Do give heed to me, O LORD,
And listen to [fn]what H6963 my opponents are saying! H6963
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:20 - “Go up to Lebanon and cry out,
And lift up your voice H6963 in Bashan;
Cry out also from Abarim,
For all your lovers have been crushed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:21 - “I spoke to you in your prosperity;
But you said, ‘I will not listen!’
This has been your practice from your youth,
That you have not obeyed My voice. H6963

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