קוֹל
qol
voice
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# 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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Occurrences in Scripture
134 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into Yahweh’s house.
Ezra 3:13so 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.
Ezra 3:13so 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.
Ezra 3:13so 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.
Nehemiah 4:20Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”
Job 15:21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
Job 21:12They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
Job 33:8“Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
Job 39:24He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
Psalms 5:2Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for I pray to you.
Psalms 6:8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
Psalms 44:16at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 47:1Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
Psalms 47:5God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.
Psalms 55:3because 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.
Psalms 66:8Praise our God, you peoples! Make the sound of his praise heard,
Psalms 74:23Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
Psalms 77:18The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
Psalms 93:4Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
Psalms 98:5Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody.
Psalms 98:6With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn, make a joyful noise before the King, Yahweh.
Psalms 102:5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
Psalms 104:7At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
Isaiah 24:18It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
Ecclesiastes 7:6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:4and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
Ecclesiastes 12:4and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
Song of Solomon 5:2I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
Isaiah 13:4The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.
Isaiah 13:4The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.
Isaiah 29:6She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.
Isaiah 30:19For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.
Isaiah 33:3At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
Isaiah 65:19I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying will be heard in her no more.
Isaiah 66:6A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that repays his enemies what they deserve.
Isaiah 66:6A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that repays his enemies what they deserve.
Isaiah 66:6A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that repays his enemies what they deserve.
Jeremiah 2:15The young lions have roared at him and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 4:19My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Jeremiah 4:21How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?
Jeremiah 4:29Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers. They go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.
Jeremiah 6:17I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’
Jeremiah 6:23They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.”
Jeremiah 8:16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan. The whole land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell therein.”
Jeremiah 9:10I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.
Jeremiah 9:19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”
Jeremiah 11:16Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.
Jeremiah 25:10Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
Jeremiah 42:14saying, “No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:” ’