φωνή, φωνῆς, ἡ (φάω) to shine, make clear (cf. Curtius, § 407; Liddell and Scott, under the word φάω)), from Homer down, Hebrew χεμ: 1. a sound, tone: of inanimate things, as of musical instruments, Mat_24:31 (T omits φωνῆς, WH give it only in marginal reading; cf. Buttmann, § 132, 10); 1Co_14:7; Rev_14:2; Rev_18:22 (Isa_18:3; Isa_24:8; Sir_50:16; 1Ma_5:31; ὀργάνων, Plato, de rep. 3, p. 397a; συριγγων, Euripides, Tro. 127; ψαλτηρίου καί αὐλοῦ, Plutarch, mor., p. 713 c.); of wind, Joh_3:8; Act_2:6; of thunder, Rev_6:1; Rev_14:2; Rev_19:6, cf. ; noise, of a millstone, Rev_18:22; of a thronging multitude, Rev_19:1; Rev_19:6; of chariots, Rev_9:9; of wings, whir (Eze_1:24), ibid.; of waters (Eze_1:24; Eze_4:1-17 Esdr. 6:17 []), Rev_1:15; Rev_14:2; Rev_19:6; also with the genitive of a thing implying speech, the sound (A. V. voice): τοῦ ἀσπασμοῦ, Luk_1:44; ῤημάτων, Heb_12:19; the cry (of men), φωνή μεγάλη, a loud cry, Mar_15:37; the clamor of men making a noisy demand, Luk_23:28, cf. Act_19:34; absolutely, a cry i. e. wailing, lamentation, Mat_2:18 (from Jer_38:15 ()). 2. a voice, i. e. the sound of uttered words: λαλεῖν φωνάς, Rev_10:3; those who begin to cry out or call to anyone are said τήν φωνήν αἴρειν, Luk_17:13; πρός τινα, Act_4:24; φωνήν ἐπαίρειν, Luk_11:27; Act_2:14; Act_14:11; Act_22:22; (φωνῆς ... ἐκέκραξα (or ἐκκράζειν), Act_24:21 (cf. Buttmann, § 143, 11)); φωνή μεγάλη added to verbs: to λέγειν, Rev_5:12; Rev_8:13; (ἐν φωνή μεγάλη Rev_14:7 (Lachmann omits ἐν; )); to εἰπεῖν, Luk_8:28; Act_14:10; to φάναι, Act_26:24; to αἰνεῖν τόν Θεόν, Luk_19:37; with verbs of crying out, shouting: ἀναβοαν, Mat_27:46 (R G L text T); βοᾶν (Mat_27:46 L marginal reading Tr WH); Mar_15:34; Act_8:7; φώνειν, (Mar_1:26 T Tr WH); Luk_23:46; Act_16:28; (Rev_14:18 L T Tr WH); ἀναφωνεῖν, Luk_1:42 (R G L Tr marginal reading); κηρύσσειν (ἐν φωνή μεγάλη), Rev_5:2 (Rec. omits ἐν); κραυγάζειν, Joh_11:43; ἀνακράζειν, Luk_4:33; κράζειν. Mat_27:50; Mar_1:26 (R G L); ; Act_7:57; Act_7:60; Rev_6:10; Rev_7:2; Rev_7:10; Rev_10:3; ( Rec.); ; κράζων ἐν φωνή μεγάλη Rev_14:15; ἐν ἰσχυρά φωνή, Rev_18:2 (G L T Tr WH); μετά φωνῆς μεγάλης δοξάζων τόν Θεόν, Luk_17:15; of declarations from heaven, heard through no speaker is seen: ἰδού φωνή λέγουσα, Mat_3:17; Mat_17:5; ἔρχεται φωνή, Mar_9:7 (R G L Tr text); Joh_12:28; ἐξέρχεται, Rev_16:17; Rev_19:5; γίνεται φωνή, Mar_1:11 (T omits; WH brackets ἐγένετο; T Tr marginal reading WH); Luk_3:22; Luk_9:35; Joh_12:30; (Act_7:31 (where Rec. adds πρός αὐτόν)); πρός τινα, Act_10:13; Act_10:15; (φωνῆς ἐνεχθείσης αὐτῷ, 2Pe_1:17); ἐγένοντο φωναί μεγάλαι, Rev_11:15; (ἀπεκρίθη φωνή, Act_11:9); ἀκούειν φωνήν (cl. Buttmann, §§ 132, 17; 144, 16 α.), Act_9:4; Act_22:9,(14); ; 2Pe_1:18; Rev_1:10; Rev_4:1 (Buttmann, § 129, 8 b.); Rev_6:6 (here L T Tr WH insert ὡς), Rev_6:7 (here G omits; Tr brackets φωνήν); Rev_9:13 (Buttmann, as above); (R G L WH marginal reading); ; ἀκούειν φωνῆς (Buttmann, § 132, 17; Winer's Grammar, § 30, 7d.), Act_9:7; Act_11:7; Act_22:7; Rev. ( T Tr WH text); ; βλέπειν τήν φωνήν, i. e. the one who uttered the voice, Rev_1:12. φωνή with a genitive of the subject: βοῶντος, Mat_3:3; Mar_1:3; Luk_3:4; Joh_1:23, all from Isa_40:3; (ἀγγέλου ὅταν μέλλῃ σαλπίζειν, Rev_10:7); ἡ φωνή τίνος, the natural (familiar) sound of one's voice, Act_12:14; Rev_3:20 (Son_5:2); the manner of speaking, as a shepherd's (cry or call to iris sheep), Joh_10:3-5; to such 'voices' Jesus likens his precepts approved (`heard') by all the good, Joh_10:16; Joh_10:27; cf. Joh_18:37; ἀνθρώπου, human utterance, 2Pe_2:16; φωνή τίνος, the voice of a clamorous person, Mat_12:19 (Isa_42:2); of one exulting, jubilant, Joh_3:29; Rev_18:23; ἀγγέλων πολλῶν, singing the praises of Christ, Rev_5:11 f; the sound of the words of Christ as he shall recall the dead to life (the Resurrection-cry), Joh_5:25; Joh_5:28; ἀρχαγγέλου, the awakening shout of the archangel, the leader of the angelic host, 1Th_4:16; τοῦ Θεοῦ, of God teaching, admonishing, whether in the O. T. Scriptures or in the gospel, Joh_5:37; Heb_3:7; Heb_3:15; Heb_4:7; shaking the earth, Heb_12:26; the speech, discourse, Θεοῦ ... οὐκ ἀνθρώπου, Act_12:22; (τάς φωνάς τῶν προφητῶν, the predictions (`read every sabbath'), Act_13:27); ἀλλάξαι τήν φωνήν. (See ἀλλάσσω), Galatians 4:20 . 3 . speech, i. e. a language, tongue: 1Co_14:10 f (Josephus, contra Apion 1, 1; (1, 9, 2; 1, 14, 1, etc.); Cebes () tab. 33; Aelian v. h. 12, 48; (Diogenes Laërtius 8, 3; for other examples from Greek writings see Passow, under the word, p. 2377{b} ; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 3); Gen_11:1; Deu_28:49; τῇ Ἑβραΐδι φωνή, 4Ma_12:7; τῇ πατρίῳ φωνή, 2Ma_7:8; 2Ma_7:21; 2Ma_7:27). (Synonym: cf. Schmidt, chapter 1 § 27; Trench, § lxxxix.; and see λαλέω, at the beginning.)

φωνή phōnē 139x a sound, Mat_24:31 ; Joh_3:8 ; Rev_4:5 ; Rev_8:5 ; a cry, Mat_2:18 ; an articulate sound, voice, Mat_3:3 ; Mat_3:17 ; Mat_17:5 ; Mat_27:46 ; Mat_27:50 ; voice, speech, discourse, Joh_10:16 ; Joh_10:27 ; Act_7:31 ; Act_12:22 ; Act_13:27 ; Heb_3:7 ; Heb_3:15 ; tone of address, Gal_4:20 ; language, tongue, dialect, 1Co_14:10 language; sound; speech; voice.

φωνή , -ῆς , ἡ , [in LXX chiefly and very freq . for H6963 ;] a voice; (a) prop ., of persons, Mat_2:18 ( LXX ), al. ; φ . αἴρειν (ἐπαίρειν ), Luk_17:13 , Act_2:14 , al. ; φ . μεγάλῃ εἰπεῖν (λέγειω , φωνεῖν , etc.), Luk_8:28 , Act_7:57 , Rev_5:12 , al. ; γίνεται (ἔρχεται ) φ . ἐκ τ . οὐρανῶν (ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ), Mar_1:11 , Luk_3:22 , Joh_12:28 , al. ( cf. DCG , ii, 810a; Dalman, Words , 204 f .);ἀκούειν φωνήν (-ῆς ; vs . ἀκούω ), Act_9:4 ; Act_9:7 , al. ; φ . βοῶντος , Mat_3:3 , Mar_1:3 , Luk_3:4 , Joh_1:23 ( LXX ); τ . θεοῦ , Joh_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 , Joh_3:8 , Act_2:6 , Rev_1:15 b, Rev_9:9 ; Rev_14:2 , al. ( cf. Tr., Syn. , § LXX xix).

φωνή [page 680] a sound, a voice : cf. P Lond 1912 .27 (A.D. 41) γνησιωτέραις ὑμᾶς φωναῖς προσαγορεύσας , addressing you more frankly by word of mouth, P Ryl II. 77 .46 (A.D. 192) ἔχομεν δὴ φωνὴν τοῦ Ἀσπιδᾶ , we now have the declaration Oi Aspidas (Edd.). In one of the family letters of Paniskos (iii/iv A.D.) from the Michigan papyri edited by J. G. Winter in the Journ. Egypt. Arch. xiii. p. 72 .21 we find πολλάκι [ς ] φωνὴν αὐ̣ [τῷ ] ἐβά [λομ ]ε̣ν ἵνα ἔλ̣[θῃ ] πρὸς τὸν ἐπανορθωτὴ (ν ) Ἀχιλλ [έα , we sent him word repeatedly that he might come to the epanorthotes Achilles a phrase for which the editor can find no parallel. For the power of the divine voice cf. Wόnsch AF p. 23 .24 (iii/A.D.) διὰ φωνῆς προστάγματος , where the editor compares Psa. 32꞉ 9 [MT Psa. 33:9] αὐτὸς εἶπεν , καὶ ἐγενήθησαν . The word is used of Coptic speech in P Lond 77 .13 (end vi/A.D.) (= I. p. 232) τῇ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων φωνῇ : cf. also P Giss I. 40 ii .27 (A.D. 215) (= Chrest. I. p. 39).

φωνή φωνή, ἡ, [Etym: φάω] "a sound, tone", properly "the sound of the voice", mostly of men, Lat. vox, Hom. , etc.; of "a battlecry", Xen. ; φωνὴν ῥηγνύναι, Virgil's "rumpere vocem", to utter "an articulate sound", Hdt. , Ar. ; φ. ἱέναι, Lat. vocem edere, Hdt. , etc.: pl. αἱ φ. "the tones of the voice", Plat. :—proverb., φωνῇ ὁρᾶν, of a blind man, Soph. "the voice or cry" of animals, Od. , Hdt. , etc. "any articulate sound", as opp. to inarticulate (ψόφος), Soph. , etc. of sounds from inanimate objects, φ. συρίγγων Eur. ; ὀργάνων Plat. "the faculty of speech, discourse", Lat. sermo, Soph. "language", Lat. lingua, Hdt. "a kind of language, dialect", Aesch. , Thuc. , etc. "a phrase, saying", τὴν Σιμωνίδου φ. Plat.

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)