קוֹל qol

Hebrew word for “voice” · Strong’s H6963 · used 506 times in 436 verses

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Meaning

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

Senses in the lexicon

• voice (335)
• voice: sound (134)
• voice: message (13)
• voice: thunder (13)
• voice: [sound of] (7)
• voice: listen (3)
• frivolity (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for qol in context, with how often each is used:

• voice 283
• sound 188
• thunder claps 11
• like the sound 10
• proclamation 7
• noise 3
• ¿ voice 2
• more than the sounds 1
• lightness 1

Where it is used

Also in 23 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Deuteronomy 5 (6), 1 Samuel 15 (6), Psalms 29 (6), Jeremiah 4 (6), Genesis 27 (5), Exodus 9 (5), Deuteronomy 28 (5), 1 Samuel 12 (5), 1 Samuel 28 (5), 1 Kings 18 (5)

Forms

• קול 165
• בקול 76
• וקול 30
• לקול 23
• קולי 23
• קולם 17
• מקול 17
• קולו 15
• קולך 13
• בקלו 11

Words used with it

Words that share verses with qol more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 235
• גָּדוֹל gadol “great” 47
• קָרָא qara “to call” 39
• שֹׁפָר shophar “trumpet” 22
• בָּכָה bakhah “to weep” 20
• נָשָׂא nasa “to lift” 30
• דָּבָר davar “word” 34
• אִם im “if” 30
• רָאָה raah “to see” 28
• צָוָה tsavah “to command” 21
• אֵשׁ esh “fire” 19
• תְּרוּעָה teruah “shout” 12

Key verses

The verses using qol that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 15:26 — And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his…
• Exodus 19:5 — Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
• Leviticus 26:36 — And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase…
• Deuteronomy 28:15 — But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command…
• Isaiah 30:30 — And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of…
• Isaiah 37:23 — Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
• Isaiah 40:9 — O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up,…
• Isaiah 50:10 — Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the…
• Isaiah 51:3 — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD;…
• Isaiah 58:1 — Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
• Jeremiah 4:19 — My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the…
• Jeremiah 33:11 — The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.