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Voice

קָלStrong’s H7032

qal

Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Qal is the Aramaic word usually translated “sound of” and “voice”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.

“That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:”
Daniel 3:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. Voice, sound
How it's translated
  • sound of 5
  • a voice 1
  • with a voice 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 7

1 book in all.

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Aramaic dictionary

קָל qal · voice

: sound voice, sound Aramaic of qol (קוֹל ": sound" H6963H)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “voice” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

VOICE, noun

[Latin vox; voco. The sense of the verb is to throw, to drive out sound; and voice is that which is driven out.]

  1. Sound or audible noise uttered by the mouth, either of human beings or of other animals.
  2. Any sound made by the breath; as the trumpet's voice
  3. A vote; suffrage; opinion or choice expressed.
  4. Language; words; expression.
All definitions and other forms of “voice”
  1. In Scripture, command; precept.“Ye would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God” Deuteronomy 8:20
  2. Sound.“After the fire, a still small voice” 1 Kings 19:12“Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?” Job 40:9“The floods have lifted up their voice” Psalms 93:3
  3. Language; tone; mode of expression.“I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice” Galatians 4:20
  4. In grammar, a particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs; as the active voice; the passive voice

VOICE, verb transitive

  1. To rumor; to report.
  2. To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
  3. To vote.

VOICE, verb intransitive

To clamor; to exclaim. obsolete

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.