קוֹל
qol (H6963H)
voice
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# קוֹל (qol): Voice in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word קוֹל (qol) denotes "voice" and appears 134 times throughout the Hebrew Bible, making it a moderately frequent term. As a straightforward lexical item, it refers to the audible expression of sound produced by human speakers or, by extension, other sources capable of producing vocal sound. The word functions as a standard noun for this concept across biblical narrative and discourse. Given its high frequency of occurrence, קוֹל demonstrates that the concept of "voice"—and by extension, communication, utterance, and the transmission of meaning through sound—held significant importance in biblical Hebrew expression. The word's recurrence suggests it was essential vocabulary for describing human interaction, divine communication, and audible phenomena. Without access to specific usage contexts from the lexicon data provided, the breadth of its 134 occurrences indicates the term was employed across diverse literary and narrative contexts, reflecting its fundamental role in how biblical writers conceptualized and described audible communication.
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They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.
When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”
He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.”
“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.
All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.
It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the city wall shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every man straight in front of him.”
So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city.
Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse Yahweh’s righteous acts, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. “Then Yahweh’s people went down to the gates.
When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” They understood that Yahweh’s ark had come into the camp.
When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, “What does the noise of this tumult mean?” The man hurried, and came and told Eli.
As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines came near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel.
Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”
When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then stir yourself up; for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”
So David and all the house of Israel brought up Yahweh’s ark with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’ ”
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.
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?”
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.
So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.
Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”
After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.
Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.”
But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”
For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots, and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.”
When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into Yahweh’s house:
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.”
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.
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.
When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into Yahweh’s house.
so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard far away.
Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”
A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
“Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for I pray to you.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.
because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
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