1 Corinthians 14:10

Tyndale New Testament

Many kyndes of voyces are in the worlde and none of them are with out signification.

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
There's a bunch of different languages out there, and every one of them has meaning.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and no kind is without meaning.

Legacy Standard Bible
There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of sounds in the world, and none is without meaning.

Bible in Basic English
There are, it may be, a number of different voices in the world, and no voice is without sense.

Darby Translation
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of undistinguishable sound.

Christian Standard Bible®
There are doubtless many different kinds of languages in the world, and all have meaning.

World English Bible
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Let there be ever so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them without signification:

Weymouth's New Testament
There are, we will suppose, a great number of languages in the world, and no creature is without a language.

King James Version (1611)
There are, it may bee, so many kindes of voices in the world, and none of them are without signification.

Literal Translation
So it may be many kinds of sounds are in the world, and not one is without distinct sound.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So many kyndes of voyces are in the worlde, and none of them is without significacion.

Mace New Testament (1729)
there are, it may be, as many different languages in the world as there are people, and none of them without signification.

Amplified Bible
There are, I suppose, a great many kinds of languages in the world [unknown to us], and none is lacking in meaning.

American Standard Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no kind is without signification.

Revised Standard Version
There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning;

Update Bible Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no [kind] is without significance.

Webster's Bible Translation
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them [is] without signification.

Young's Literal Translation
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

New Century Version
It may be true that there are all kinds of sounds in the world, and none is without meaning.

New English Translation
There are probably many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.

Berean Standard Bible
Assuredly, there are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

Contemporary English Version
There are many different languages in this world, and all of them make sense.

Complete Jewish Bible
There are undoubtedly all kinds of sounds in the world, and none is altogether meaningless;

English Standard Version
There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning,

Geneva Bible (1587)
There are so many kindes of voyces (as it commeth to passe) in the world, and none of them is dumme.

George Lamsa Translation
For, behold, there are many kinds of speech in the world, yet none of them are without expression.

Hebrew Names Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

International Standard Version
There are, I suppose, many different languagessounds">[fn] in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

Etheridge Translation
10 For, behold, there are many kinds of tongues in the world, and not one of them hath not signification; [fn]

Murdock Translation
For lo, there are many kinds of tongues in the world; and there is not one of them without meaning.

New King James Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without significance.

New Living Translation
There are many different languages in the world, and every language has meaning.

New Life Bible
There are many languages in the world. All of them have meaning to the people who understand them.

English Revised Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no [kind] is without signification.

New Revised Standard
There are doubtless many different kinds of sounds in the world, and nothing is without sound.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
There may happen to be so many kinds of languages in the world, and, not one, unspoken: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world: and none is without voice.

King James Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.

Lexham English Bible
There are probably so many kinds of languages in the world, and none without meaning.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
There are so many kyndes of voyces, [as it commeth to passe] in the worlde, and none of them are without signification.

Easy-to-Read Version
It is true that there are many different languages in the world, and they all have meaning.

New American Standard Bible
There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and none is incapable of meaning.

Good News Translation
There are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
There ben many kyndis of langagis in this world, and no thing is with outen vois.

Contextual Overview

⁶ Now brehren if I come vnto you speakige wt tonges: what shall I profit you excepte I speake vnto you other by revelacio or knowledge or prophesyinge or doctrine. ⁷ Moreover whe thinges with out lyfe geve sounde: whether it be a pype or an harpe: except they make a distinccion in the soundes: how shall it be knowen what is pyped or harped? ⁸ And also if the trope geve an vncertayne voyce who shall prepare him silfe to fyght? ⁹ Eve so lykwyse whe ye speake with toges excepte ye speake wordes that have signification how shall yt be vnderstonde what is spoke? For ye shall but speake in the ayer. ¹⁰ Many kyndes of voyces are in the worlde and none of them are with out signification. ¹¹ If I knowe not what the voyce meaneth I shalbe vnto him that speaketh an alient: and and he that speaketh shalbe an alient vnto me ¹² Eve so ye (for as moche as ye covet spretuall giftes) seke that ye maye have plentye vnto ye edifyinge of the congregacion. ¹³ Wherfore let him that speaketh with tonges praye that he maye interpret also. ¹⁴ If I praye with tonge my sprete prayeth: but my mynde is with out frute.

Bible Verse Review
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Gill's Notes on the Bible

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices,.... לשנא, "tongues", or "languages", as the Syriac version renders it; that is, as many as there are nations in the world; there may be seventy of them, as the Jews say there were at the confusion of languages at Babel; there may be more or less:

and none of them is without signification: every language, and every word in a language, has a meaning in it, an idea annexed to it, which it conveys to him that understands it, and that cannot be done without a voice ordinarily speaking.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There are it may be ... - There has been considerable variety in the interpertation of this expression. Rosenmuller renders it, “for the sake of example.” Grotius supposes that Paul meant to indicate that there were, perhaps, or might be, as many languages as the Jews supposed, to wit, seventy. Beza and others suppose it means, that there may he as many languages as there are nations of people. Bloomfield renders it, “Let there he as many kinds of languages as you choose.” Macknight, “There are, no doubt, as many kinds of languages in the world as ye speak.” Robinson (Lexicon) renders it, “If so happen, it may be; perchance, perhaps;” and says the phrase is equivalent to “for example,” The sense is, “There are perhaps, or for example, very many kinds of voices in the world; and all are significant. None are used by those who speak them without meaning; none speak them without designing to convey some intelligible idea to their hearers.” The “argument” is, that as “all” the languages that are in the world, however numerous they are, are for “utility,” and as none are used for the sake of mere display, so it should be with those who had the power of speaking them in the Christian church. They should speak them only when and where they would be understood.

Voices - Languages.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 14:10. There are, it may be — ει τυχοι, For example.

So many kinds of voices — So many different languages, each of which has its distinct articulation, pronunciation, emphasis, and meaning; or there may be so many different nations, each possessing a different language, &c.