Strong G5456G5456Hφωνή
voice/sound: noise
One of the 2 senses of Strong G5456
- Transliteration
- phōnē
- Pronunciation
- fo-nay'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Probably akin to G5316 through the idea of disclosure; a tone (articulate bestial or artificial); by implication an address (for any purpose) saying or language: - noise sound voice.
Detailed definition
φωνή, -ῆς, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly and very frequently for קוֹל;]
a voice;
__(a) prop., of persons, Mat.2:18 (LXX), al.; φ. αἴρειν (ἐπαίρειν), Luk.17:13, Act.2:14, al.; φ. μεγάλῃ εἰπεῖν (λέγειν, φωνεῖν, etc.), Luk.8:28, Act.7:57, Rev.5:12, al.; γίνεται (ἔρχεται) φ. ἐκ τ. οὐρανῶν (ἐξ οὐρανοῦ), Mrk.1:11, Luk.3:22, Jhn.12:28, al. (cf. DCG, ii, 810a; Dalman, Words, 204f.); ἀκούειν φωνήν (-ῆς; see: ἀκούω), Act.9:4, 7 al.; φ. βοῶντος, Mat.3:3, Mrk.1:3, Luk.3:4, Jhn.1:23" (LXX); τ. θεοῦ, Jhn.5:37, Heb.3:7, al. By meton.,
__(α) of the speaker, βλέπειν τὴν φ., Rev.1:12;
__(β) speech, language ( Gen.11:1, 4Ma.12:7, al.): 1Co.14:10;
__(b) of inanimate things: Mat.24:31, Jhn.3:8, Act.2:6, Rev.1:15b 9:9 14:2, al. (cf. Tr., Syn., §lxxxix).
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly and very frequently for קוֹל;]
a voice;
__(a) prop., of persons, Mat.2:18 (LXX), al.; φ. αἴρειν (ἐπαίρειν), Luk.17:13, Act.2:14, al.; φ. μεγάλῃ εἰπεῖν (λέγειν, φωνεῖν, etc.), Luk.8:28, Act.7:57, Rev.5:12, al.; γίνεται (ἔρχεται) φ. ἐκ τ. οὐρανῶν (ἐξ οὐρανοῦ), Mrk.1:11, Luk.3:22, Jhn.12:28, al. (cf. DCG, ii, 810a; Dalman, Words, 204f.); ἀκούειν φωνήν (-ῆς; see: ἀκούω), Act.9:4, 7 al.; φ. βοῶντος, Mat.3:3, Mrk.1:3, Luk.3:4, Jhn.1:23" (LXX); τ. θεοῦ, Jhn.5:37, Heb.3:7, al. By meton.,
__(α) of the speaker, βλέπειν τὴν φ., Rev.1:12;
__(β) speech, language ( Gen.11:1, 4Ma.12:7, al.): 1Co.14:10;
__(b) of inanimate things: Mat.24:31, Jhn.3:8, Act.2:6, Rev.1:15b 9:9 14:2, al. (cf. Tr., Syn., §lxxxix).
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5456H appears in 14 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- voice9
- sound5
- noise1
First verses
- Luke 1:44For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
- John 3:8The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
- Acts 2:6Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
- 1 Corinthians 14:7And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
- 1 Corinthians 14:8For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
- Revelation 1:10I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
- Revelation 4:5And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
- Revelation 8:5And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
- Revelation 9:9And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
- Revelation 10:4And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
- Revelation 10:7But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
- Revelation 11:19And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
- Revelation 16:18And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
- Revelation 18:22And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
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Detailed Greek dictionary
φων-ή, ἡ,
sound, tone, properly, the sound of the voice, whether of men or animals with lungs and throat (ἡ φωνὴ ψόφος τίς ἐστιν ἐμψύχου [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 420b5, compare 29, “HA” 535a27, “PA” 664b1))]; opposed to φθόγγος (see. φθόγγος [Refs (11):)]
I mostly of human beings, speech, voice, utterance, φ. ἄρρηκτος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.490; ἀτειρέα φ. 17.555)]; φ. δέ οἱ αἰθέρ᾽ ἵκανεν, of Ajax' battle-cry, [Refs (15.686)]; of the battle-cry of an army, Τρώων καὶ Ἀχαιῶν.. φ. δεινὸν ἀϋσάντων [Refs (14.400)]: plural, of the cries of market-people, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.3; ὁ τόνος τῆς φ. [prev. author] “Cyn.” 6.20, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.280, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.209)]; ὀξεῖα, βαρυτέρα, λεία, τραχεῖα φ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 67b; φ. μαλακή 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 979 (_anapaest meter_))]; μιαρά, ἀναιδής, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Eq.” 218, 638: with Verbs, φωνὴν ῥῆξαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.85, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 357 (_anapaest meter_); φ. ἱέναι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.2, 4.23, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 259d, etc.; φ. ἥσει 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1295; προΐεσθαι 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.23; ἀρθροῦν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.4.12; διαρθρώσασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 322a; ἐντείνασθαι 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.157; φ. ἐπαρεῖ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.336; φωνῇ)]with his voice, aloud, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.161, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.29; εἶπε τῇ φωνῇ τὰ ἀπόρρητα 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.51; διὰ ζώσης φωνῆς Anonymus “Geog.Epit.” 1p.488M.)]; μιᾷ φ. with one voice, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 14)]; ἀπὸ φωνῆς, with genitive, dictated by.., [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “in Thd.” 1.103 at Title Page, 5th-6th c.AD: Marinus Biographus)] in Euc.Dat.p.234 M., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (6th c.AD: Olympiodorus Philosophus “in Platonis Gorgiam commentaria - Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie, Suppl.” p.1 N., Palladius Medicus “in Hippocratem” 2.1 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator: _plural_, αἱ φ.)] the notes of the voice, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 474e; σχήμασι καὶ φωναῖς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1306a32: proverbial, φωνῇ ὁρᾶν, of a blind man, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 138 (_anapaest meter_))]; πᾶσαν, τὸ λεγόμενον, φ. ἱέντα, i.e. using every effort, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 890d, compare “Euthd.” 293a; πάσας ἀφιέναι φωνάς [prev. author] “R.” 475a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.195; φωνὰς ἀπρεπεῖς προΐεντο “PTeb.” 802.15 (2nd c.BC).)]
I.2 the cry of animals, as of swine, dogs, oxen, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.239, 12.86, 396)]; of asses, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.129)]; of the nightingale, song, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.521; ἄνθρωπος πολλὰς φωνὰς ἀφίησι, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα μίαν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 895a4.)]
I.3 any articulate sound, opposed to inarticulate noise (ψόφος), φ. κωκυμάτων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1206; ὥσπερ φωνῆς οὔσης κατὰ τὸν ἀέρα πολλάκις καὶ λόγου ἐν τῇ φωνῇ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.4.12: στοιχεῖόν ἐστι φ. ἀδιαίρετος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1456b22)]; also especially of vowelsound, opposed to to that of consonants, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 203b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 535a32)]; in literary criticism, of sound, opposed to meaning, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 5.20 (_plural_), 21.)]
I.4 of sounds made by inanimate objects, mostly poetical, κερκίδος φ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 595; συρίγγων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 127 (Lyric poetry); αὐλῶν 4th c.BC: Mnesimachus Comicus 4.56 (_anapaest meter_))]; rare in early Prose, ὀργάνων φωναί [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 397a; frequently in LXX, ἡ φ. τῆς σάλπιγγος LXX.Exo.20.18)]; φ. βροντῆς[LXX+NT (LXX.Psa.103(104).7; ἡ φ. αὐτοῦ ὡς φ. ὑδάτων πολλῶν NT.Rev.1.15.)]
I.5 generally, sound, defined as ἀὴρ πεπληγμένος, πληγὴ ἀέρος, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.21, Chrysipp.[prev. work]2.43.)]
II faculty of speech, discourse, εἰ φωνὴν λάβοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 548; παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά [prev. author] “OC” 1283.)]
II.2 language, hdt.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4.114, 117; φ. ἀνθρωπηΐη [prev. author] 2.55; ἀγνῶτα φ. βάρβαρον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1051; φωνὴν ἥσομεν Παρνησίδα [prev. author] “Ch.” 563, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1397 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.5, 7.57, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 2.3, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 17d, etc.; τῶν βαρβάρων πρὶν μαθεῖν τὴν φ. [prev. author] “Tht.” 163b; κατὰ τὴν Ἀττικὴν τὴν παλαιὰν φ. [prev. author] “Cra.” 398d, compare 409e.)]
III phrase, saying, τὴν Σιμωνίδου φ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Prt.” 341b; ἡ τοῦ Σωκράτους φ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.106b, compare 330f,)]; of formulae, στοιχειώματα καὶ φ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.4U., compare “Sent.Vat.” 41 (= 4th c.AD: Metrodorus Epigrammaticus “fragment” 59); αἱ σκεπτικαὶ φ. 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.14, compare 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 5.162b, etc.)]
IV report, rumour, [LXX (LXX.Gen.45.16.)]
IV.b message, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (Sammelb. 7252.21 (3rd-4th c.AD).)]
V loud talk, bragging, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Gnomologium Vaticanum - Kleine Schriften” 45.)]
sound, tone, properly, the sound of the voice, whether of men or animals with lungs and throat (ἡ φωνὴ ψόφος τίς ἐστιν ἐμψύχου [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 420b5, compare 29, “HA” 535a27, “PA” 664b1))]; opposed to φθόγγος (see. φθόγγος [Refs (11):)]
I mostly of human beings, speech, voice, utterance, φ. ἄρρηκτος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.490; ἀτειρέα φ. 17.555)]; φ. δέ οἱ αἰθέρ᾽ ἵκανεν, of Ajax' battle-cry, [Refs (15.686)]; of the battle-cry of an army, Τρώων καὶ Ἀχαιῶν.. φ. δεινὸν ἀϋσάντων [Refs (14.400)]: plural, of the cries of market-people, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.3; ὁ τόνος τῆς φ. [prev. author] “Cyn.” 6.20, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.280, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.209)]; ὀξεῖα, βαρυτέρα, λεία, τραχεῖα φ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 67b; φ. μαλακή 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 979 (_anapaest meter_))]; μιαρά, ἀναιδής, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Eq.” 218, 638: with Verbs, φωνὴν ῥῆξαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.85, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 357 (_anapaest meter_); φ. ἱέναι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.2, 4.23, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 259d, etc.; φ. ἥσει 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1295; προΐεσθαι 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.23; ἀρθροῦν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.4.12; διαρθρώσασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 322a; ἐντείνασθαι 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.157; φ. ἐπαρεῖ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.336; φωνῇ)]with his voice, aloud, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.161, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.29; εἶπε τῇ φωνῇ τὰ ἀπόρρητα 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.51; διὰ ζώσης φωνῆς Anonymus “Geog.Epit.” 1p.488M.)]; μιᾷ φ. with one voice, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 14)]; ἀπὸ φωνῆς, with genitive, dictated by.., [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “in Thd.” 1.103 at Title Page, 5th-6th c.AD: Marinus Biographus)] in Euc.Dat.p.234 M., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (6th c.AD: Olympiodorus Philosophus “in Platonis Gorgiam commentaria - Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie, Suppl.” p.1 N., Palladius Medicus “in Hippocratem” 2.1 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator: _plural_, αἱ φ.)] the notes of the voice, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 474e; σχήμασι καὶ φωναῖς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1306a32: proverbial, φωνῇ ὁρᾶν, of a blind man, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 138 (_anapaest meter_))]; πᾶσαν, τὸ λεγόμενον, φ. ἱέντα, i.e. using every effort, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 890d, compare “Euthd.” 293a; πάσας ἀφιέναι φωνάς [prev. author] “R.” 475a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.195; φωνὰς ἀπρεπεῖς προΐεντο “PTeb.” 802.15 (2nd c.BC).)]
I.2 the cry of animals, as of swine, dogs, oxen, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.239, 12.86, 396)]; of asses, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.129)]; of the nightingale, song, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.521; ἄνθρωπος πολλὰς φωνὰς ἀφίησι, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα μίαν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 895a4.)]
I.3 any articulate sound, opposed to inarticulate noise (ψόφος), φ. κωκυμάτων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1206; ὥσπερ φωνῆς οὔσης κατὰ τὸν ἀέρα πολλάκις καὶ λόγου ἐν τῇ φωνῇ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.4.12: στοιχεῖόν ἐστι φ. ἀδιαίρετος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1456b22)]; also especially of vowelsound, opposed to to that of consonants, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 203b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 535a32)]; in literary criticism, of sound, opposed to meaning, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 5.20 (_plural_), 21.)]
I.4 of sounds made by inanimate objects, mostly poetical, κερκίδος φ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 595; συρίγγων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 127 (Lyric poetry); αὐλῶν 4th c.BC: Mnesimachus Comicus 4.56 (_anapaest meter_))]; rare in early Prose, ὀργάνων φωναί [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 397a; frequently in LXX, ἡ φ. τῆς σάλπιγγος LXX.Exo.20.18)]; φ. βροντῆς[LXX+NT (LXX.Psa.103(104).7; ἡ φ. αὐτοῦ ὡς φ. ὑδάτων πολλῶν NT.Rev.1.15.)]
I.5 generally, sound, defined as ἀὴρ πεπληγμένος, πληγὴ ἀέρος, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.21, Chrysipp.[prev. work]2.43.)]
II faculty of speech, discourse, εἰ φωνὴν λάβοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 548; παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά [prev. author] “OC” 1283.)]
II.2 language, hdt.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4.114, 117; φ. ἀνθρωπηΐη [prev. author] 2.55; ἀγνῶτα φ. βάρβαρον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1051; φωνὴν ἥσομεν Παρνησίδα [prev. author] “Ch.” 563, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1397 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.5, 7.57, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 2.3, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 17d, etc.; τῶν βαρβάρων πρὶν μαθεῖν τὴν φ. [prev. author] “Tht.” 163b; κατὰ τὴν Ἀττικὴν τὴν παλαιὰν φ. [prev. author] “Cra.” 398d, compare 409e.)]
III phrase, saying, τὴν Σιμωνίδου φ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Prt.” 341b; ἡ τοῦ Σωκράτους φ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.106b, compare 330f,)]; of formulae, στοιχειώματα καὶ φ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.4U., compare “Sent.Vat.” 41 (= 4th c.AD: Metrodorus Epigrammaticus “fragment” 59); αἱ σκεπτικαὶ φ. 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.14, compare 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 5.162b, etc.)]
IV report, rumour, [LXX (LXX.Gen.45.16.)]
IV.b message, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (Sammelb. 7252.21 (3rd-4th c.AD).)]
V loud talk, bragging, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Gnomologium Vaticanum - Kleine Schriften” 45.)]