Voice
קָלStrong’s H7032qal
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:”
Meaning
- 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.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:7In contextTherefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
- Daniel 3:10In contextThou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:
- Daniel 3:15In contextNow if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
- Daniel 4:31In contextWhile the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.
- Daniel 6:20In contextAnd when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
- Daniel 7:11In contextI beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
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.]
- Sound or audible noise uttered by the mouth, either of human beings or of other animals.
- Any sound made by the breath; as the trumpet's voice
- A vote; suffrage; opinion or choice expressed.
- Language; words; expression.
All definitions and other forms of “voice”
- In Scripture, command; precept.“Ye would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God” Deuteronomy 8:20
- 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
- Language; tone; mode of expression.“I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice” Galatians 4:20
- In grammar, a particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs; as the active voice; the passive voice
VOICE, verb transitive
- To rumor; to report.
- To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
- 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.