149 occurrences

'Sound' in the Bible

And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersGod Remembering His CovenantGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Keeps Covenant

And when the sound of the horn became louder and louder, Moses' words were answered by the voice of God.

Verse ConceptsSymbolsTrumpets For SignallingGod Answered

And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.

Verse ConceptsLightningMusical Instruments, types ofSmokeTheophanyThunderFear, Of UnknownStanding At A DistanceTrumpets For SignallingThose Frightened Of GodWitnessingdistancesmokingThunder Showing God's Presence

Aaron is to put it on for his holy work; and the sound of it will be clear, when he goes into the holy place before the Lord, and when he comes out, keeping him safe from death.

Verse ConceptsMinistry, Nature OfBellsDeath Due To God's Presence

And Moses said, It is not the voice of men who are overcoming in the fight, or the cry of those who have been overcome; it is the sound of songs which comes to my ear.

Verse ConceptsGroups ShoutingMusic To CelebratePeople OvercomingNot DefeatedOvercoming

And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;

Verse ConceptsFugitivesHuman EmotionHeart, HumanWeakness, PhysicalFaint HeartednessSurvivors Threatened

At the sound of a second loud note, the tents on the south side are to go forward: the loud note will be the sign to go forward.

Verse ConceptsSouthDoing Things TwiceSetting Out

And at the sound of the people weeping, every man at his tent-door, the wrath of the Lord was great, and Moses was very angry.

Verse ConceptsTentsGod Will Be AngryMourning In RegretNot Pleasing People

And the voice of the Lord came to you out of the fire: the sound of his words came to your ears but you saw no form; there was nothing but a voice.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod Appearing In FireHearing God's VoiceNot Seeing God

And at the sound of a long note on the horns, let all the people give a loud cry; and the wall of the town will come down flat, and all the people are to go straight forward.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsShoutingWallsBattle CriesThings Falling

And to the people Joshua gave an order, saying, You will give no cry, and make no sound, and let no word go out of your mouth till the day when I say, Give a loud cry; then give a loud cry.

Verse ConceptsSilenceNo ShoutingCurbing SpeechSpiritual Warfare

And the seventh time, at the sound of the priests' horns, Joshua said to the people, Now give a loud cry; for the Lord has given you the town.

Verse ConceptsBattle CriesTrumpets For BattleThose God Gave Into Their Hands

But the spirit of the Lord came on Gideon; and at the sound of his horn all Abiezer came together after him.

Verse ConceptsThe Spirit Of The LordTrumpets For Signallinggideon

At the sound of my horn, and the horns of those who are with me, let your horns be sounded all round the tents, and say, For the Lord and for Gideon.

Verse ConceptsTrumpets For Battlegideon

For Hannah's prayer came from her heart, and though her lips were moving she made no sound: so it seemed to Eli that she was overcome with wine.

Verse ConceptsPraying QuietlyThe Lips Of The RighteousHeart, And Holy SpiritLipsRenewed HeartMoving OnPrayingdrunkardsHeartfelt Prayer To God

And the cows took the straight way, by the road to Beth-shemesh; they went by the highway, not turning to the right or to the left, and the sound of their voices was clear on the road; and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the edge of Beth-shemesh.

Verse ConceptsNot Turning AsideDirectionNatural Disasters

And Samuel said, What then is this sound of the crying of sheep and the noise of oxen which comes to my ears?

Verse ConceptsHearing Things

Then at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go forward quickly, for the Lord has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines.

Verse ConceptsGod Going BeforeHearing ThingsMoving Onmovementfootprintsarmy

But Absalom at the same time sent watchers through all the tribes of Israel to say, At the sound of the horn you are to say, Absalom is king in Hebron.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Reign OfChildren, Bad KidsRebellion, Against Human AuthoritySecrecyTrumpetUnfaithfulness, To PeopleWicked Children, Examples OfTrumpets For CelebrationSpying

And all the people came up after him, piping with pipes, and they were glad with great joy, so that the earth was shaking with the sound.

Verse ConceptsMusical Instruments, types ofMusic To CelebrateRejoicing In God's Works

And it came to the ears of Adonijah and all the guests who were with him, when their meal was ended. And Joab, hearing the sound of the horn, said, What is the reason of this noise as if the town was worked up?

Verse ConceptsGuestsMusic To CelebrateHearing Things

(And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)

Verse ConceptsBuildingIronMasonsToolsHammersThe First Templeconstruction

Then Ahijah, hearing the sound of her footsteps coming in at the door, said, Come in, O wife of Jeroboam; why do you make yourself seem like another? for I am sent to you with bitter news.

Verse ConceptsSoundHearing ThingsPretendingFeet In Action

Then Elijah said to Ahab, Up! take food and drink, for there is a sound of much rain.

Verse ConceptsRainAbundance, MaterialSoundEating And DrinkingAbundance

And after the earth-shock a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, the sound of a soft breath.

Verse ConceptsGentlenessFireSpeech, DivineAdvice, Receiving God's AdviceStillnessGod Appearing In FireGod's VoiceHurricanes

For the Lord had made the sound of carriages and horses, and the noise of a great army, come to the ears of the Aramaeans, so that they said to one another, Truly, the king of Israel has got the kings of the Hittites and of the Egyptians for a price to make an attack on us.

Verse ConceptsDeliverance, Means OfHiringHorsesWheelsAttacking With ChariotsSoundHearing ThingsEnemy Attackssyriafootstepsrumorsfootprintsreinforcementarmy

And at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go out to the fight, for God has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines.

Verse ConceptsSoundThe Environmentfootstepsmovementarmy

And all the people gave worship, to the sound of songs and the blowing of horns; and this went on till the burned offering was ended.

Verse ConceptsBowingAssemblyAccompaniment

So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

Verse ConceptsLack Of Discriminationdistance

A word was given to me secretly, and the low sound of it came to my ears.

Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.

At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.

Verse ConceptsAnswering GodGod's Desires

A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:

Verse ConceptsThose Who DestroyFear Is Due

They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe.

Verse ConceptsFlutesHarpsMusical Instruments, types ofMusicMusic To Celebrate

And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.

Verse ConceptsFlutesHarpsMusical Instruments, types ofSad Music

Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice; to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth.

Verse ConceptsRumblingThunder Showing God's Presence

Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;

Verse ConceptsNot Being StillNot Stilldistance

I made no sound, I said no word, even of good; and I was moved with sorrow.

Verse ConceptsMutenessIndividuals Being Silent

The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax.

Verse ConceptsChaosKingdomsEarth, Judgment OfRoar Of NationsGod's VoiceDisorder Among The NationsLucifer

God has gone up with a glad cry, the Lord with the sound of the horn.

Verse ConceptsGod ArisingShout Of GodTrumpets For Celebration

From heaven you gave your decision; the earth, in its fear, gave no sound,

Verse ConceptsQuietnessMotionlessnessStaying PutTerror Of GodGod Speaks From Heaven

The clouds sent out water; the skies gave out a sound; truly, your arrows went far and wide.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfWaterClouds, Natural UseGod's ArrowsPouring Water

At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear;

Verse ConceptsRebukeThunderFleeing From GodReproving ThingsGod Requite Them!flyingThunder Expressing God's Judgment

They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.

Verse ConceptsAbsence Of FeelingDumbnessTypes Of FeetDumbFeeling Lost

The sound of joy and salvation is in the tents of the upright; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.

Verse ConceptsJoy In WorshipShouting For JoySongsVictory, As An Act Of GodJoyJoy And HappinessCelebrationjoyfulsalesjoyfulness

The sound of my cry went up to the Lord; with my voice I made my prayer for grace to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsPraying LoudlyCavesCaves As Places Of Refuge

Give him praise with the sound of the horn: give him praise with corded instruments of music.

Verse ConceptsHarpsLyreMusical Instruments, types ofTrumpetLyresPraise And Worshipinstrumentsdrums

When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low;

Verse ConceptsNatural DeafnessWakefulnessShutting DoorsGrinding FoodFaintnessBird SoundsSingersHabitual Getting Uprelaxation

I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For The Church

The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.

Verse ConceptsHunting

And the bases of the door-pillars were shaking at the sound of his cry, and the house was full of smoke.

Verse ConceptsSmokeTheophanyTremblingMoving To A New Place

And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping sound for the fly which is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.

Verse ConceptsFliesBeesInsectsWhistlingflying

And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.

Verse ConceptsNestsWingsWings Of BirdsBird Soundsrelentless

The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.

Verse ConceptsHarpsMusical Instruments, types ofCessationStopping RejoicingLack Of Rejoicingdrums

From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.

Verse ConceptsHanding Over PeopleGood Things From Far Awaytraitors

And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.

Verse ConceptsClimbingEarth's FoundationWindows Of HeavenMoving UpwardsPeople Falling From A HeightGod TrappingFear Will Come

O people, living in Zion, at Jerusalem, your weeping will be ended; he will certainly have mercy on you at the sound of your cry; when it comes to his ear, he will give you an answer.

Verse ConceptsAnswered PromisesGod Will AnswerNot Mourning

And the Lord will send out the sound of his great voice, and they will see his arm stretched out, with the heat of his wrath, and the flame of a burning fire; with a cloud-burst, and storm, and a rain of ice.

Verse ConceptsGod, Majesty OfThunderWeather, As God's JudgmentArm Of GodFire Of God's AngerPaying Attention To GodLightning Used MetaphoricallyThunder Expressing God's Judgment

And every blow of the rod of his punishment, which the Lord will send on him, will be with the sound of music: and with the waving of his sword the Lord will make war against him.

Verse ConceptsHarpsMusicMusical Instruments, types ofMusic To Celebratedrums

Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.

Verse ConceptsBlessing In The Wilderness

Go out of Babylon, go in flight from the Chaldaeans; with the sound of song make it clear, give the news, let the word go out even to the end of the earth: say, The Lord has taken up the cause of his servant Jacob.

Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonHeraldRedemption, In OtComing Out From Evil

For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheHorticultureJoy, Of IsraelLand, Spiritual Aspects OfRuinsThanksgivingAfflictions, Consolation DuringArchaeologyEdenWaste Places RestoredBlessing In The WildernessThose Singing PraiseGod Will ComfortFree Of ChargeGardensPeace And ComfortzionFinding Comfort In God

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.

Verse ConceptsDumbnessDaydreamingOccupationsSleep, SpiritualSleep, PhysicalWatchmanSloth Examples OfSleep, Warnings AgainstBarking And HowlingDumbThose Who Were IgnorantPetsawakening

Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;

Verse ConceptsFingersCalling upon GodAnswered PromisesGod Will AnswerBehold Me!rumors

There is a noise of war from the town, a sound from the Temple, the voice of the Lord giving punishment to his haters.

Verse ConceptsRetributionReward, DivineGod Has Requited

My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.

Verse ConceptsAgony, In HeartAgony, God's JudgmentRenewed HeartBowelsTrumpets For BattleOther References To The HeartReady For WarWarTragedyheartbeat

How long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn?

Verse ConceptsTrumpets For BattleFlagsBefore God Acts

Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.

Verse ConceptsBoundariesSandSeaAttitudes Of RespectOceansAweWavesDivine Power Over NatureBarriersEternal WorldLimits For The SeaSand And GravelFear God!

As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.

Verse ConceptsViolence In The EarthFountainsWellsContinuing In SinFreshWells, Figurative Use

And I put watchmen over you, saying, Give attention to the sound of the horn; but they said, We will not give attention.

Verse ConceptsWatchmanTrumpets For SignallingPay Attention To God!

The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.

Verse ConceptsNosesNeighing And Braying

Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofLamentingSongsWailingLand Becoming EmptyI Mourn Catastrophe

For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

Verse ConceptsEarth, God SustainingNatureRainStoringThunderWeather, God's Sovereignty OverWindElements, Control OfVapourDivine Power Over NatureGod Sending RainGod Dispensing WindGod's VoiceGod's StorehousesProvidence, Of God In NatureGod Controlling The Rain

May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toNoonThings Like People

And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.

Verse ConceptsBridegroomBridesBanishmentMillstonesVoicesCessationStopping RejoicingLack Of Rejoicing

A sound of the cry of the keepers of sheep, and the bitter crying of the chiefs of the flock! for the Lord has made waste their green fields.

And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsPeace, Human Destruction Of

And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.

Verse ConceptsMultiplyingThanksgivingRestored JoyGod Multipling PeopleSource Of HonourBeing Thankful For BlessingsCelebrationThankscelebrating

Saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, or be hearing the sound of the horn, or be in need of food; there we will make our living-place;

Verse ConceptsTrumpetTrumpets For BattleNo More FamineNo War

You said, Sorrow is mine! for the Lord has given me sorrow in addition to my pain; I am tired with the sound of my sorrow, and I get no rest.

Verse ConceptsdiscouragementSighingRest, PhysicalSelf PitySleeplessnessTirednessUnhappinessI Am Suffering

She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength; they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesAxesSnakesFelling TreesThings Like SnakesSound

There is the sound of crying from Horonaim, wasting and great destruction;

Verse ConceptsDestruction

All joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field and for the land of Moab; I have made the wine come to an end from the crushing vessels: no longer will the grapes be crushed with the sound of glad voices.

Verse ConceptsWineWinepressDestroying VineyardsDepression, SymptomsCessationNo FoodLack Of Rejoicing

So my heart is sounding for Moab like the sound of pipes, and my heart is sounding like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: for the wealth he has got for himself has come to an end.

Verse ConceptsFlutesLamentingRiches, Nature OfMusical Instruments, types ofRiches, Description OfWailing

There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfSound

At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

Verse ConceptsRainStoringThunderGod Dispensing WindGod's StorehousesGod Controlling The Rain

There is the sound of a cry from Babylon, and of a great destruction from the land of the Chaldaeans:

Verse ConceptsCondemnation Of Babylon

Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

Verse ConceptsSighingLike The NationsFound GuiltyOther References To The HeartWithout Strengthlonliness

And when they went, the sound of their wings was like the sound of great waters to my ears, like the voice of the Ruler of all, a sound like the rushing of an army: when they came to rest they let down their wings.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfNoiseThe AlmightyAngel's WingsThings Like WaterSoundGod's VoiceLike WaterPutting Things Down

Then I was lifted up by the wind, and at my back the sound of a great rushing came to my ears when the glory of the Lord was lifted up from his place.

Verse ConceptsGod ArisingGod Lifting PeopleSound

And there was the sound of the wings of the living beings touching one another, and the sound of the wheels at their side, the sound of a great rushing.

Verse ConceptsWingsWheelsAngel's WingsTouching Holy ThingsSound

And the sound of the wings of the winged ones was clear even in the outer square, like the voice of the Ruler of all.

Verse ConceptsCherubim, Description ofAngel's WingsSoundGod's VoiceCherubim

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ὑγιαίνω 
Hugiaino 
sound , be sound , be whole , whole , wholesome , be in health , safe and sound
Usage: 10

חצרר חצצר חצר 
Chatsar 
Usage: 6

σαλπίζω 
Salpizo 
Usage: 11

הגה 
hegeh 
Usage: 3

הגּיון 
Higgayown 
Usage: 4

הד 
hed 
Usage: 1

המה 
Hamah 
Usage: 34

המן המון 
Hamown 
Usage: 83

חקר 
Chaqar 
Usage: 27

מרפּא 
Marpe' 
Usage: 16

מתם 
M@thom 
Usage: 4

קל קול 
Qowl 
Usage: 506

קל 
Qal (Aramaic) 
Usage: 7

שׁמע 
Shama` 
Usage: 1158

תּקע 
Taqa` 
Usage: 68

תּקע 
Teqa` 
Usage: 1

תּרוּעה 
T@ruw`ah 
Usage: 36

βολίζω 
Bolizo 
Usage: 2

ἐξηχέομαι 
Execheomai 
Usage: 1

ἠχέω 
Echeo 
Usage: 1

ἦχος 
Echos 
Usage: 3

ὁλοκληρία 
Holokleria 
Usage: 1

ὑγιής 
Hugies 
Usage: 10

φθόγγος 
Phthoggos 
Usage: 2

φωνή 
Phone 
Usage: 128

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