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qol H6963

קוֹל (qol) means “voice” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

קוֹל Hebrew · H6963 506 tagged occurrences in 436 verses

Pronunciation guide: kole Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H6963A

קוֹל · qol · voice

: voice/shout/loud 1) voice, sound, noise 1a) voice 1b) sound (of instrument)

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TBESH · H6963B

קֹל · qol · frivolity

lightness, frivolity

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TBESH · H6963H

קוֹל · qol · voice: sound

: sound/noise 1) voice, sound, noise 1a) voice 1b) sound (of instrument)

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TBESH · H6963I

קוֹל · qol · voice: thunder

: thunder 1) voice, sound, noise 1a) voice 1b) sound (of instrument)

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TBESH · H6963J

קוֹל · qol · voice: message

: message/proclaim 1) voice, sound, noise 1a) voice 1b) sound (of instrument)

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TBESH · H6963K

קוֹל · qol · voice: [sound of]

: [sound_of](THING) 1) voice, sound, noise 1a) voice 1b) sound (of instrument)

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TBESH · H6963L

קוֹל · qol · voice: listen

: listen 1) voice, sound, noise 1a) voice 1b) sound (of instrument)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or קֹל; from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound

KJV glosses: [phrase] aloud, bleating, crackling, cry ([phrase] out), fame, lightness, lowing, noise, [phrase] hold peace, (pro-) claim, proclamation, [phrase] sing, sound, [phrase] spark, thunder(-ing), voice, [phrase] yell.

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How translators render H6963

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the voice	44
the sound	29
my voice	26
voice	22
your voice	18
his voice	17
their voices	13
to the voice	13
at the sound	12
a voice	9
their voice	7
listen	6
loudly	6
sound	6
to his voice	6
and	5
the noise	5
the sounds	5
the voices	5
thunder	5
a proclamation	4
and the sound	4
her voice	4
the cry	4
to my voice	4
a cry	3
aloud	3
and the voices	3
at the voice	3
my plea	3
the thunder	3
the voice of	3
to your voice	3
vvv	3
a sound	2
and a proclamation	2
like	2
like the crackling	2
like the voice	2
listen to	2
my cry	2
of his voice	2
our voice	2
song	2
sounds	2
to the sound	2
when he thunders	2
with a voice	2
your words	2
a battle cry	1
a noise	1
a public	1
a shout	1
a voice came	1
above the roar	1
and have your voice	1
and its sound	1
and lowing	1
and my cry	1
and the blast	1
and the cooing	1
and the lowing	1
and the music	1
and the sounding	1
and thunder	1
are saying	1
as loud	1
at their cries	1
blast	1
bleating	1
by the sound	1
by their shouting	1
egypt will hiss	1
for the sound	1
for your voice	1
from the noise	1
from the sound	1
he speaks	1
hear	1
hear the	1
him	1
his roar	1
i cried out	1
i lift my voice	1
in such a loud	1
in the roar	1
in the thunder	1
is the voice	1
it is my voice	1
it is the voice	1
it was the sound	1
joyfully	1
let the sound	1
like the roar	1
like the sound	1
listen to the voice	1
make his voice	1
may growl	1
me	1
noise	1
not a trace	1
of their voices	1
of your voice	1
or let your voice	1
plea	1
resounded	1
response	1
roar	1
shouts	1
so that even the sound	1
so the speech	1
that	1
the blast	1
the clamor	1
the command	1
the crack	1
the outcry	1
the rumble	1
the sounding	1
the thunderbolt	1
the tune	1
the witness	1
their calls	1
their plan	1
there is the sound	1
this message	1
through my loud	1
to my plea	1
to their voice	1
to what you say	1
was like the roar	1
when the news	1
when you cry for help	1
with a shout	1
with a sound like	1
with his voice	1
with its voice	1
with shouts	1
with the sound	1
with the sounding	1
with the voice	1
with thunder	1
without a sound	1
your voice loudly	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the voice	84
voice	36
my voice	31
his voice	26
and the voice	17
the noise	16
their voice	16
a voice	15
to the voice	15
the sound	14
thy voice	12
unto the voice	12
not the voice	10
at the noise	6
with my voice	6
a sound	5
at the sound	5
unto my voice	5
with the voice	5
and the noise	4
at the voice	4
thunder	4
unto their voice	4
a noise	3
and the sound	3
from the noise	3
her voice	3
like the noise	3
noise	3
not unto the voice	3
our voice	3
to thy voice	3
with the sound	3
aloud	2
and his voice	2
and the thunders	2
as the voice	2
for a voice	2
neither voice	2
not my voice	2
of their voice	2
sound	2
that he made a proclamation	2
their voices	2
this thy voice	2
to my voice	2
unto her voice	2
unto his voice	2
with a voice	2
a proclamation	1
also the noise	1
and a noise	1
and a voice	1
and he wept	1
and his sound	1
and it came to pass through the lightness	1
and make the voice	1
and my voice	1
and proclaim	1
and shall cause their voice	1
and sound	1
and the fame	1
and the lowing	1
and their voice	1
and there was a voice	1
and they caused it to be proclaimed	1
and they made proclamation	1
and thy voice	1
and when the voice	1
and with sound	1
and with the sound	1
any more the voice	1
as the noise	1
as with the voice	1
at the cry	1
at thy voice	1
because of the voice	1
behold the noise	1
behold the voice	1
but her voice	1
by reason of the voice	1
cry out	1
for as the crackling	1
for the noise	1
for the voice	1
for through the voice	1
from them the voice	1
him by a voice	1
i beseech thee the voice	1
i the voice	1
in her nor the voice	1
into the voice	1
it a voice	1
it crieth out	1
like a noise	1
like the voice	1
me a voice	1
nor cause his voice	1
not his voice	1
not the sound	1
not thy voice	1
now unto my voice	1
of his voice	1
of the thunder	1
of thunder	1
or the voice	1
sing	1
sounded	1
than the noise	1
that his voice	1
that there were thunders	1
the thunder	1
the thunderings	1
their peace	1
them and a noise	1
them when his voice	1
then this bleating	1
there neither voice	1
there was a noise	1
thereof by the noise	1
thou also unto the voice	1
thou unto the voice	1
thunderings	1
to his voice	1
to make proclamation	1
to make your voice	1
to the sound	1
to your voice	1
unto him let not thy voice	1
unto our voice	1
unto thee at the voice	1
unto thee with the voice	1
unto thy voice	1
unto your voice	1
up thy voice	1
when he speaketh	1
when the sound	1
with his voice	1
with the noise	1
with your voice	1
yelled	1

Verses containing H6963

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2 Samuel 19:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
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2 Samuel 22:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried out to my God. And from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for help reached His ears.
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2 Samuel 22:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.
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1 Kings 1:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.
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1 Kings 1:41 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now Adonijah and all his guests were finishing their feast when they heard the sound of the ram’s horn. “Why is the city in such a loud uproar?” asked Joab.
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1 Kings 1:45 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there with rejoicing that rings out in the city. That is the noise you hear.
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1 Kings 8:55 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he stood and blessed the whole assembly of Israel in a loud voice, saying:
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1 Kings 14:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet entering the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you disguised? For I have been sent to you with bad news.
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1 Kings 17:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived.
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1 Kings 18:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no sound, and no one answered as they leaped around the altar they had made.
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1 Kings 18:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!”
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1 Kings 18:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.
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1 Kings 18:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Midday passed, and they kept on raving until the time of the evening sacrifice. But there was no response; no one answered, no one paid attention.
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1 Kings 18:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.”
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1 Kings 19:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After the earthquake there was a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a still, small voice.
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1 Kings 19:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
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1 Kings 20:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And you must raise an army like the one you have lost—horse for horse and chariot for chariot—so we can fight the Israelites on the plain, where we will surely prevail.” And the king approved their plan and acted accordingly.
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1 Kings 20:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the prophet said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, as soon as you depart from me a lion will kill you.” And when he left, a lion found him and killed him.
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2 Kings 4:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
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2 Kings 6:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”
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2 Kings 7:6 · BSB · 3 occurrences
For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us.”
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2 Kings 7:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they went and called out to the gatekeepers of the city, saying, “We went to the Aramean camp and no one was there—not a trace—only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents were intact.”
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2 Kings 10:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.
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2 Kings 11:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Athaliah heard the noise from the guards and the people, she went out to the people in the house of the LORD.
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2 Kings 18:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This happened because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD their God, but violated His covenant—all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded—and would neither listen nor obey.
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2 Kings 18:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
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2 Kings 19:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
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1 Chronicles 14:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, move out to battle, because this will mean that God has gone out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”
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1 Chronicles 15:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
David also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.
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1 Chronicles 15:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and with cymbals and the music of harps and lyres.
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2 Chronicles 5:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud
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2 Chronicles 15:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They took an oath to the LORD with a loud voice, with shouting, trumpets, and rams’ horns.
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2 Chronicles 20:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the Levites from the Kohathites and Korahites stood up to praise the LORD, the God of Israel, shouting in a very loud voice.
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2 Chronicles 23:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and cheering the king, she went out to them in the house of the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 24:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And a proclamation was issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they were to bring to the LORD the tax imposed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness.
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2 Chronicles 30:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they established a decree to circulate a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel, in Jerusalem. For they had not observed it in great numbers as prescribed.
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2 Chronicles 30:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard their voice, and their prayer came into His holy dwelling place in heaven.
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2 Chronicles 32:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the Assyrians called out loudly in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them in order to capture the city.
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2 Chronicles 36:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
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Ezra 1:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
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Ezra 3:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.
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Ezra 3:13 · BSB · 3 occurrences
The people could not distinguish the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people were making so much noise. And the sound was heard from afar.
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Ezra 10:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And a proclamation was issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should gather at Jerusalem.
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Ezra 10:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the whole assembly responded in a loud voice: “Truly we must do as you say!
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Nehemiah 4:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Wherever you hear the sound of the horn, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us!”
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Nehemiah 8:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and that they should proclaim this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”
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Nehemiah 9:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani—stood on the raised platform and cried out in a loud voice to the LORD their God.
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Job 2:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.
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Job 3:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
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Job 4:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
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