114 occurrences in 13 translations

'Sounding' in the Bible

He is not to be touched by a hand, but is to be stoned or have an arrow put through him; man or beast, he is to be put to death: at the long sounding of a horn they may come up to the mountain.

Verse ConceptsHornsMusical Instruments, types ofRamsThrowing StonesDeath As PunishmentNot TouchingTrumpets For SignallingBoth Men And Animals KilledInstructions About Stoning

And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear.

Verse ConceptsPillar Of CloudLightningMusical Instruments, types ofTheophanyThunderGroups TremblingTrumpets For SignallingThose Frightened Of GodThe Last TrumpetLion Of The Tribe Of JudahThunder Showing God's Presence

But when you blow the trumpet to assemble the whole congregation, don't use the same sound as you do for sounding an alarm.

Verse ConceptsConvocations

Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took some of the Spirit who was upon Moses and put Him upon the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied [praising God and declaring His will], but they did not do it again.

Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToRevelation, In OtProphesyingOnceOnly Onceelders

So a young man ran and told Moses and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying [extolling the praises of God and declaring His will] in the camp.”

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Running

And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every tribe, and with them Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, taking in his hands the vessels of the holy place and the horns for sounding the note of war.

Verse ConceptsA Thousand PeopleTrumpets For SignallingPriests In ActionTemple Utensils In UseMemorabilia

And let seven priests go before the ark with seven loud-sounding horns in their hands: on the seventh day you are to go round the town seven times, the priests blowing their horns.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalHornsPriests, Function In Ot TimesRamsSevenSeven PeopleSeven ThingsSeven TimesThe Ark Moved AroundTrumpets For BattleSeven TrumpetsFalling

Then loudly the feet of the horses were sounding with the stamping, the stamping of their war-horses.

Verse ConceptsThunder

Looking out from the window she gave a cry, the mother of Sisera was crying out through the window, Why is his carriage so long in coming? When will the noise of his wheels be sounding?

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldLooking Through WindowsPeople Who Delayed

They stood up, each soldier in his assigned place surrounding the encampment, and the entire army ran away, sounding the alarm to retreat.

Verse ConceptsPeoples Who Fledarmy

And when the ark of the Lord's agreement came into the tent-circle, all Israel gave a great cry, so that the earth was sounding with it.

So David and all the men of Israel took up the ark of the Lord with cries of joy and sounding of horns.

Verse ConceptsShoutingShouting For JoyGroups ShoutingTrumpets For Celebration

Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.

Verse ConceptsTentsTrumpetAudacityTrumpets For SignallingNot Sharing

The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out.

Verse ConceptsThunderThe Most HighGod's VoiceThunder Expressing God's Judgment

And there let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet put the holy oil on him to make him king over Israel; and sounding the horn say, Long life to King Solomon!

Verse ConceptsTrumpetAnointing KingsTrumpets For CelebrationNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Then straight away everyone took his robe and put it under him on the top of the steps, and, sounding the horn, they said, Jehu is king.

Verse ConceptsCloaksStairwaysTrumpetTrumpets For CelebrationMaking Kings

And looking, she saw the king in his regular place by the pillar, and the captains and the horns near him; and all the people of the land giving signs of joy and sounding the horns. Then Athaliah, violently parting her robes, gave a cry, saying, Broken faith, broken faith!

Verse ConceptsCustomTreacheryTrumpetMusical Instruments, types ofTreasonDuplicating WordsPillars For Solomon's TempleTrumpets For CelebrationThose Who Tore ClothesUnfaithfulRejoicing In God's Workstraitors

And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

Verse ConceptsHarpsLyreMusiciansMusical Instruments, types ofSingersOccupationsSingingSongsCymbalsInstrumentalistsLyres

So those who made melody, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were put in position, with brass instruments, sounding loudly;

Verse ConceptsBrassCymbals

and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah led on lyres, sounding the octaves.

All of Israel were bringing up the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD, accompanied by shouting, sounding of horns, trumpets, and cymbals, along with loud music on harps and lyres.

Verse ConceptsHarpsHornsMusical Instruments, types ofRamsShoutingShouting For JoyCymbalsLyres

Asaph the head, and his second Zechariah; Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with instruments of psalteries, and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals is sounding;

Verse ConceptsHarpsMusical Instruments, types ofOrchestrasCymbalsLyres

Then let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy before the Lord, for he is come to be the judge of the earth.

Verse ConceptsForestsJudgesThe Nature Of The Judgement

and with them -- Heman and Jeduthun -- are trumpets and cymbals for those sounding, and instruments of the song of God, and the sons of Jeduthun are at the gate.

Verse ConceptsOccupationsTrumpetPortersInstrumentalists

Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

Verse ConceptsHarpsLinenLyreOrchestrasA Hundred And Some

And when the players on horns, and those who made melody in song, with one voice were sounding the praise and glory of the Lord; with loud voices and with wind instruments, and brass and corded instruments of music, praising the Lord and saying, He is good; his mercy is unchanging for ever: then the house was full of the cloud of the glory of the Lord,

Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfDivine ManifestationsGod, The EternalPraise, Manner And Methods OfSongsVoicesCloud of gloryinstruments

The priests stood in waiting at their assigned places, along with the descendants of Levi who carried musical instruments used in service to the LORD that King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD because his gracious love is eternal whenever David, accompanied by priests sounding trumpets, offered praises while all of Israel stood in the assembly.

Verse ConceptsPraise, Manner And Methods OfTrumpetInventions

And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

Verse ConceptsImmanuelPriests, Function In Ot TimesStriving With GodTrumpet

And Judah, turning their faces, saw that they were being attacked in front and at the back; and they gave a cry for help to the Lord, while the priests were sounding their horns.

Verse ConceptsCrying To God

They swore their allegiance to the Lord, shouting their approval loudly and sounding trumpets and horns.

Verse ConceptsHornsMusical Instruments, types ofShoutingShouting For Joy

She looked around, and there was the king, standing by his pillar at the gate, accompanied by officers and trumpeters who stood beside the king, along with all the people of the land rejoicing and sounding trumpets while singers lead the celebration with their musical instruments. Athaliah tore her robes and yelled "Treason! Treason!"

Verse ConceptsSingersTreacheryTrumpetExcitementTreasonPillars For Solomon's Temple

Hezekiah gave a command to offer burnt offerings on the altar, and when the burnt offerings began, a song to the LORD also began with trumpets sounding and with the instruments that King David of Israel had crafted.

Verse ConceptsMusical Instruments, types ofOrchestras

Every builder was working with his sword at his side. And by my side was a man for sounding the horn.

Verse ConceptsInstrumentalistsFamily Conflictvulnerabilityrebuilding

Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Verse ConceptsTeethBreaking Teeth

After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding.

Verse ConceptsGod, Majesty OfRumbling

Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

Verse ConceptsNosesCreatures JumpingNeighing And Braying

The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.

Verse ConceptsQuiversJavelins

The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire.

Verse ConceptsThunderHailGod's VoiceThunder Showing God's Presence

Though its waters are sounding and troubled, and though the mountains are shaking with their violent motion. (Selah.)

Verse ConceptsTroubleTremblingFoamsPsalm InterjectionsThe Sea Stirred UpThe OceanThe Sea

Raise a song, strike the timbrel,The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.

Verse ConceptsMusical Instruments, types ofHarpsinstrumentsdrums

He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.

Verse ConceptsLanguagesLanguages Mentioned In ScriptureNot Knowing People

You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name.

Verse ConceptsJoy, And Human ExperienceMountainsCompassesNorth And SouthWhat Else God Created

Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy,

Verse ConceptsForestsChoirsThose Singing Praisebaseball

Let your voice be sounding in songs and melody; let all your thoughts be of the wonder of his works.

Verse ConceptsPraisePraise, Should Be Offered ByPraise The Lord With Music!

Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.

Verse ConceptsMusical Instruments, types ofCymbalsdrums

Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:

Verse ConceptsBusiness At The Gateway

Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Human Importance

The flowers are come on the earth; the time of cutting the vines is come, and the voice of the dove is sounding in our land;

Verse ConceptsBirds, Features OfBirds, Types Of BirdsRosesspringtime

Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:

Verse ConceptsNecksDebaucheryOrnamentsSuperiorityCosmeticsHaughtinessWantonnessDecadenceEvil Eyesmakeupbrandingzion

And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

Verse ConceptsDarkness, And God's JudgmentBlackSeaColors, BlackRoar Of NationsOvertaken By DarknessSea, Metaphorical ReferencesEclipse

For every boot of the man of war with his sounding step, and the clothing rolled in blood, will be for burning, food for the fire.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionKingdom Of God, Characteristics OfWeaponsShoesHorrors Of WarWeapons For Fuel

Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

Verse ConceptsAxesSelf ConfidenceToolsWoodInfidelity To GodSawsClubsDo Not Be ProudScoffers

Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod, Titles And Names OfShouting For Joy

The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBaldnessBeardsHeadsHigh PlacesKnives

Heshbon is crying out, and Elealeh; their voice is sounding even to Jahaz: for this cause the heart of Moab is shaking; his soul is shaking with fear.

For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;

Verse ConceptsGod, Suffering OfHarvestDestroying VineyardsI Mourn CatastropheSummer Fruit

For this cause the cords of my heart are sounding for Moab, and I am full of sorrow for Kir-heres.

Verse ConceptsGod, Suffering OfHarps

Woe to the multitude of many peoples, As the sounding of seas they sound; And to the wasting of nations, As the wasting of mighty waters they are wasted.

Verse ConceptsSeaThings Like The SeaSea, Metaphorical References

Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of the rivers of Ethiopia:

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsWingsAfricaRivers

And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.

Verse ConceptsGuardiansGuidance, God's Promises OfOrthodoxy, In OtHoly Spirit, Types OfChanging DirectionLearning The Right WayThe Faculty Of HearingForksguidance

You who give good news to Zion, get up into the high mountain; you who give good news to Jerusalem, let your voice be strong; let it be sounding without fear; say to the towns of Judah, See, your God!

Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofevangelism, nature ofClimbingGospel, Descriptions OfHeraldVoicesWatchfulness, Of BelieversNames And Titles For ChristGood TidingsHe Is Our God

Let them give glory to the Lord, sounding his praise in the sea-lands.

Verse ConceptsGlorifying GodPraisePraise, Reasons ForPraise And Worship

Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.

Verse ConceptsHesitationShoutingMinisters, Way They Should TeachTrumpets For SignallingWhat Sin?EmotionsrebellionDishonoring God

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfGentlenessGod, Zeal OfSympathyTendernessZealHeaven, God's ThroneGod Acts From HeavenQuerying God's Power

And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.

Verse ConceptsGod, Joy OfRest, EternalDivine FavourNon ExistenceNot Mourning

A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.

Verse ConceptsForgettingWeepingConviction Of Sinimpulsiveness

For a voice is declaring from Dan, And sounding sorrow from mount Ephraim.

Verse ConceptsProclaiming

So, as a prophet, give out these words among them, and say to them, The voice of the Lord will be sounding like a lion from on high; he will send out his voice from his holy place, like the loud voice of a lion, against his flock; he will give a cry, like those who are crushing the grapes, against all the people of the earth.

Verse ConceptsGrapesThunderWord Of GodTreading GrapesShout Of GodThunder Expressing God's Judgment

This is what the Lord has said: There will again be sounding in this place, of which you say, It is a waste, without man and without beast; even in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem which are waste and unpeopled, without man and without beast,

Verse ConceptsRoadsStreetsEmpty CitiesLand Becoming EmptyBoth Men And Animals Affected

I have knowledge of his wrath, says the Lord, that it is nothing; his high-sounding words have done nothing.

The cry of Heshbon comes even to Elealeh; to Jahaz their voice is sounding; from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim will become dry.

Verse Conceptsdryness

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

The earth is shaking with the noise of their fall; their cry is sounding in the Red Sea.

Verse ConceptsOther References To The Red Sea

For the Lord is making Babylon waste, and putting an end to the great voice coming out of her; and her waves are thundering like great waters, their voice is sounding loud:

Verse ConceptsSilenceDestruction Of BabylonBabylon DestroyedSoundRoar Of Nations

The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.

Verse ConceptsLack Of RejoicingCelebrationcelebrating

They made him a prisoner with hooks, and took him to the king of Babylon; they put him in the strong place so that his voice might be sounding no longer on the mountains of Israel.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersCagesMan Trapping

And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

Verse ConceptsSorrowSprinklingVoicesDust On The HeadAshes Of Humiliation

If, when he sees the sword coming on the land, by sounding the horn he gives the people news of their danger;

Verse ConceptsTrumpets For SignallingSeeing Situations

After all, he heard the alarm sounding, but did not heed the warning, so his shed blood will remain his own responsibility. If he had heeded the warning, he would have saved himself.

Verse ConceptsHearing ThingsPaying Attention To PeopleSaving Oneself

And the Lord will be thundering from Zion, and his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will be shaking: but the Lord will be a breastplate for his people and a strong place for the children of Israel.

Verse Conceptsdefence, divineGod, The RockSkyThunderStrongholdsZion, As A SymbolTremblingGod SpeakingzionThunder Expressing God's Judgment

And he said, The Lord will give a lion's cry from Zion, his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the fields of the keepers of sheep will become dry, and the top of Carmel will be wasted away.

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As OccupationsTheophanyThunderGod SpeakingMourning Due To CatastrophePasturing The FlockThunder Expressing God's Judgment

So I will send down fire upon the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour their fortified citadels with an alarm sounding in the time of battle, and with a whirlwind in the time of storm.

Verse ConceptsWindDestruction Of StrongholdsFire Of JudgementBattle CriesHurricanes

Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?

Verse ConceptsHunting

The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?

Verse Conceptsevangelism, motivation forReverence, And God's NatureFear Is DueGod SpeakingOld Testament Claims Inspiration

Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To God!Man Defending

Lo, on the mountains the feet of one proclaiming tidings, sounding peace! Celebrate, O Judah, thy festivals, complete thy vows, For add no more to pass over into thee doth the worthless, He hath been completely cut off!

Verse ConceptsFeetevangelists, identity ofevangelism, nature ofGospel, Descriptions OfHeraldGood TidingsNeverHow Death Is InevitableMaking VowsFeet In ActionBlessings From The MountainsGod Judges The WickedFestivals ObservedCelebration

The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterMountains QuakingLifting HandsDeep Seas

A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsBattlementsTrumpets For Battle

And the Lord will be seen over them, and his arrow will go out like the thunder-flame: and the Lord God, sounding the war-horn, will go in the storm-winds of the South.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfArrows, Described AsLightningTheophanyTrumpets For BattleGod AppearingArrowsHurricanes

They took a sounding and found it to be 120 feet deep; when they had sailed a little farther and sounded again, they found it to be 90 feet deep.

Verse ConceptsdepthDepthingNavigation

For God has unveiled them and revealed them to us through the [Holy] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things [diligently], even [sounding and measuring] the [profound] depths of God [the divine counsels and things far beyond human understanding].

Verse ConceptsGod, Revelation OfHoly Spirit, Personhood OfHoly Spirit, Types OfInspiration Of The Holy Spirit, Purpose OfSecret ThingsDeep ThingsSpiritual DepthsTaught By The SpiritDivineGod's PlanThe MindGods PlanInner BeautyGod's Plan For UsScripturesecretsexploringeverythingmindset

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sounding of the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incapable of decay, and *we* shall be changed.

Verse ConceptsFutureResurrection, Of The DeadSudden EventsEternal ExistenceNo DecayOur ResurrectionTrumpets At The EndThe ResurrectionEyesThe Rapture

For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.

Verse ConceptsCommunicationThe Gospel PreachedWithout SpeechBelief In GodSpreading The GospelFaith In God

For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofCloaksGreed, Believers' Response ToAppealing To GodThe Witness Of GodCovetousnessGreedmotives

For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

Verse ConceptsFutilityFaultsemptinessEloquenceCharmdesiresTemptation, Sources OfEnticersBoastersAllurements Of SinWantonnessLiving For The MaterialEnticingUseless WordsEscaping From PeopleEvil DesiresError

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