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noiz ( קול , ḳōl , המון , hāmōn , שׁאון , shā'ōn ; φωνή , phōnḗ ): "Noise" is most frequently the translation of ḳōl , "voice," "sound," in the King James Version ( Exodus 20:18 , "the noise of the trumpet," the Revised Version (British and American) "voice"; Exodus 32:17 twice, 18; Judges 5:11 , "(they that are delivered) from the noise of the archers," the Revised Version (British and American) "far from the noise," etc., margin "because of the voice of"; 1 Samuel 4:6 , etc.); hāmōn , "noise," "sound" (1 Samuel 14:19 ); rōghez , "anger," "rage" (Job 37:2 ); rēa‛ , "outcry" (Job 36:33 ); shā'ōn , "desolation," "noise" (Isaiah 24:8; Isaiah 25:5 ); teshu'ōth "cry," "crying" (Job 36:29 ); pācah , "to break forth" (Psalm 98:4 ); shāmēa‛ , "to hear," etc. (Joshua 6:10; 1 Chronicles 15:28 ); phōnē , "sound," "voice," is translated "noise" (Revelation 6:1 , "I heard as it were the noise of thunder," the Revised Version (British and American) "saying as with a voice of thunder"); rhoizēdón , "with a hissing or rushing sound" (2 Peter 3:10 , "with a great noise"); gı́netai phōnḗ (Acts 2:6 , the King James Version "when this was noised abroad," margin "when this voice was made," the Revised Version (British and American) "when this sound was heard"); akoúō , "to hear"; dialaléō , "to talk or speak" throughout, are also translated "noised" (Mark 2:1; Luke 1:65 ). So the Revised Version (British and American) (compare Judith 10:18, "noised among the tents"). Otherwise in the Revised Version (British and American) Apocrypha, thróos "confused noise" (The Wisdom of Solomon 1:10); boḗ , "outcry" (Judith 14:19); ḗchos ,"sound" (The Wisdom of Solomon 17:18; compare Sirach 40:13); Latin vox , "voice" (2 Esdras 5:7).

For "noise" (Psalm 65:7 twice), the Revised Version (British and American) has "roaring"; for "make a noise like the noise of the seas" ( Isaiah 17:12 ), "the uproar (margin "multitude") of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas"; for "a voice of noise from the city" (Isaiah 66:6 ), "a voice of tumult from the city"; for "noise" (Jeremiah 10:22 ), "voice"; for "a noise" (1 Chronicles 15:28 ), "sounding aloud," "voice" (Ezekiel 43:2 ); for "every battle of the warrior is with confused noise" (Isaiah 9:5 ), "all the armor of the armed man in the tumult," margin "every boot of the booted warrior"; for "make a noise," "moan" (Psalm 55:2 ), "roar" (Isaiah 17:12 ); for "make a loud noise" (Psalm 98:4 ), "break forth"; for "maketh a noise" (Jeremiah 4:19 ), "is disquieted"; for "the noise of his tabernacle" (Job 36:29 ), "the thunderings of his pavilion"; for "make any noise with your voice (Joshua 6:10 ), "let your voice be heard"; "joyful noise," for "shouting" (Isaiah 16:10 ); for "The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea" (Psalm 93:4 ), "Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty."