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קוֹל
qôwl · Hebrew · Strong's H6963 · 506 occurrences
The KJV renders 17 different Hebrew and Greek words as “sound”
What it means
a voice or sound
or קֹל; from an unused root meaning to call aloud;
How the KJV renders it
bleating, crackling, fame, lightness, lowing, noise, proclaim, proclamation, sound, thunder, voice
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“sound”
“fame”
also renders akoḗ (G189), diaphēmízō (G1310), phḗmē (G5345), ēchos (G2279), lógos (G3056), shᵉmûwʻâh (H8052), shêmaʻ (H8088), shômaʻ (H8089)
“noise”
“thunder”
also renders brontḗ (G1027), râʻam (H7481), raʻam (H7482), raʻmâh (H7483)
“voice”
“bleating”
also renders shᵉrûwqâh (H8292)
“lightness”
also renders elaphría (G1644)
“proclamation”
also renders rinnâh (H7440)
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Where it appears
506 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 14:15 · HNcmsc
When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”
1 Chronicles 15:16 · HR/Ncmsa
David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.
1 Chronicles 15:28 · HC/R/Ncmsc
Thus all Israel brought the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.
1 Kings 1:40 · HR/Ncmsc/Sp3mp
All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with their sound.
1 Kings 1:41 · HNcmsc
Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?”
1 Kings 1:45 · HTd/Ncmsa
Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.
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