φωνή
voice
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
39 distinct verses where G5456 appears in the Accusative case, across 9 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 4 verses
- Luke 3:22 φωνὴν n acc sg fem and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying "You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased."
- Luke 9:36 φωνὴν n acc sg fem When the voice came, Jesus was found alone. They were silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.
- Luke 11:27 φωνὴν n acc sg fem It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!"
- Luke 17:13 φωνὴν n acc sg fem They lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"
John 5 verses
- John 3:8 φωνὴν n acc sg fem The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
- John 3:29 φωνὴν n acc sg fem He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
- John 5:37 φωνὴν n acc sg fem The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
- John 10:4 φωνὴν n acc sg fem Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
- John 10:5 φωνήν n acc sg fem They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."
Acts 10 verses
- Acts 2:14 φωνὴν n acc sg fem But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
- Acts 4:24 φωνὴν n acc sg fem When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, "O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
- Acts 9:4 φωνὴν n acc sg fem He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
- Acts 12:14 φωνὴν n acc sg fem When she recognized Peter's voice, she didn't open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.
- Acts 13:27 φωνὰς n acc pl fem For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn't know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
- Acts 14:11 φωνὴν n acc sg fem When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!"
- Acts 22:9 φωνὴν n acc sg fem "Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn't understand the voice of him who spoke to me.
- Acts 22:14 φωνὴν n acc sg fem He said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
- Acts 22:22 φωνὴν n acc sg fem They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!"
- Acts 26:14 φωνὴν n acc sg fem When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'
1 Corinthians 2 verses
- 1 Corinthians 14:7 φωνὴν n acc sg fem Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they didn't give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?
- 1 Corinthians 14:8 φωνὴν n acc sg fem For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?
Galatians 1 verse
2 Peter 1 verse
Revelation 14 verses
- Revelation 1:10 φωνὴν n acc sg fem I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet
- Revelation 1:12 φωνὴν n acc sg fem I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands.
- Revelation 5:11 φωνὴν n acc sg fem I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;
- Revelation 6:6 φωνὴν n acc sg fem I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don't damage the oil and the wine!"
- Revelation 6:7 φωνὴν n acc sg fem When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see!"
- Revelation 9:13 φωνὴν n acc sg fem The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,
- Revelation 10:3 φωνῇ φωνάς n dat sg fem n acc pl fem He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.
- Revelation 10:4 φωνὴν n acc sg fem When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don't write them."
- Revelation 11:12 φωνὴν n acc sg fem I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here!" They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.
- Revelation 12:10 φωνὴν n acc sg fem I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
- Revelation 14:2 φωνὴν φωνὴν φωνὴν φωνὴ n acc sg fem n acc sg fem n acc sg fem n nom sg fem I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps.
- Revelation 18:4 φωνὴν n acc sg fem I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don't receive of her plagues,
- Revelation 19:1 φωνὴν n acc sg fem After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God:
- Revelation 19:6 φωνὴν φωνὴν φωνὴν n acc sg fem n acc sg fem n acc sg fem I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, φωνη (phōnḗ) means “voice.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 2:18. It appears 128 verses across 11 books of the Greek New Testament, among its common vocabulary. The word gravitates to Revelation (35%), then Acts and John. Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5456 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 128
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 128 distinct verses.
- 11 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 11 of 27 New Testament books.
- #121
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 121 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 128 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 45 verses 35%
- Acts 27 verses 21%
- John 15 verses 12%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 128 distinct verses.
- Johannine 60 verses · 47%
- Revelation 45 verses · 35%
- Gospels 42 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 40 verses · 31%
- Pauline corpus 6 verses · 5%
- Hebrews 5 verses · 4%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 2%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Voice 114×, Voices 15×, Sound 8×
- American Standard Version: Voice 111×, Voices 13×, A 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Voice 83×, Loud voice 13×, Sound 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Voice 107×, A 38×, Sound 18×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5456 across 141 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5456 across 151 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5456 across 136 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5456 across 183 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- of inanimate things, as musical instruments
- of the sound of uttered words
- speech
Word origin
Derived from φαινω (phaínō) (G5316) — to shine.
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.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms G5456 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| φωνὴν phōnḕn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 12:19 | 39 |
| φωνὴ phōnḕ | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 2:18 | 33 |
| φωνῇ phōnē̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 27:46 | 32 |
| φωνῆς phōnē̂s | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Luke 17:15 | 22 |
| φωναὶ phōnaì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Luke 23:23 | 6 |
| φωνήν phōnḗn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | John 10:5 | 2 |
| φωνῶν phōnō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 14:10 | 2 |
| φωνάς phōnás | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 10:3 | 1 |
| φωναῖς phōnaîs | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Luke 23:23 | 1 |
| φωνὰς phōnàs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Acts 13:27 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5456, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- φανερος phanerós G5318 evident
- φανος phanós G5322 torch
- φανταζω phantázō G5324 to show
- φελονης phelónēs G5341 cloak
- φως phōs G5457 light
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word φωνη appears 517 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 449 verses in 35 books.
- 517
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 449
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 35 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 35 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 3:8 φωνή
- Exodus 3:18 φωνή
- Leviticus 5:1 φωνή
- Numbers 3:16 φωνή
- Deuteronomy 1:34 φωνή
- Joshua 6:10 φωνή
- Judges 2:2 φωνή
- Ruth 1:9 φωνή
- 1 Samuel 1:13 φωνή
- 2 Samuel 3:32 φωνή
- 1 Kings 1:40 φωνή
- 2 Kings 4:31 φωνή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5456) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 449. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 3:8 φωνή They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 3:10 φωνή The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
- Genesis 3:17 φωνή To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 4:10 φωνή Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
- Genesis 4:23 φωνή Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, For I have slain a man for wounding me, A young man for bruising me.
- Genesis 11:1 φωνή The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
- Genesis 11:7 φωνή Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
- Genesis 15:4 φωνή Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."
- Genesis 16:2 φωνή Sarai said to Abram," See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
- Genesis 21:12 φωνή God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.
- Genesis 21:17 φωνή God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
- Genesis 22:18 φωνή In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
- Genesis 26:5 φωνή because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
- Genesis 27:13 φωνή His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."
- Genesis 27:22 φωνή Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
- Genesis 27:34 φωνή When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."
- Genesis 27:38 φωνή Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
- Genesis 27:43 φωνή Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
- Genesis 29:11 φωνή Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
- Genesis 30:6 φωνή Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan.
- Genesis 39:14 φωνή that she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, "Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
- Genesis 39:15 φωνή It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."
- Genesis 39:18 φωνή and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."
- Genesis 45:2 φωνή He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
- Genesis 45:16 φωνή The report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
- Exodus 3:18 φωνή They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'
- Exodus 4:1 φωνή Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'"
- Exodus 4:8 φωνή "It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
- Exodus 4:9 φωνή It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land."
- Exodus 5:2 φωνή Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go."
- Exodus 9:23 φωνή Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 9:28 φωνή Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."
- Exodus 9:29 φωνή Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh's.
- Exodus 9:33 φωνή Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.
- Exodus 9:34 φωνή When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
- Exodus 15:26 φωνή and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you."
- Exodus 18:24 φωνή So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
- Exodus 19:5 φωνή Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
- Exodus 19:13 φωνή No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain."
- Exodus 19:16 φωνή It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
- Exodus 19:19 φωνή When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
- Exodus 20:18 φωνή All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
- Exodus 22:22 φωνή "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
- Exodus 23:22 φωνή But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
- Exodus 24:3 φωνή Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."
- Exodus 28:35 φωνή It shall be on Aaron to minister: and the sound of it shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.
- Exodus 32:17 φωνή When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."
- Exodus 32:18 φωνή He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear."
- Leviticus 5:1 φωνή "'If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn't report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
- Leviticus 25:9 φωνή Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5456) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
