Word study

Clamor

3 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: clamor, clamoring. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “clamor” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • קוֹל qôlsound, voicetranslated this way 1 time of its 425 uses · Strong’s H6963Noun  ·  Translated: voice 197, sound 63, voices 22, thunder 11

    Psalm 74:23 Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.

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  • הָמוֹן hâmônsound, murmur, roar, crowd, abundancetranslated this way 1 time of its 81 uses · Strong’s H1995Noun  ·  Translated: multitude 12, army 10, multitudes 8, many 6

    Isaiah 31:4 For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey — and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor — so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.

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  • שָׁאוֹן shâônroartranslated this way 1 time of its 18 uses · Strong’s H7588Noun  ·  Translated: uproar 4, tumult 4, noise 2

    Isaiah 17:12 Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • φωνή phōnḗa sound, noise, voicetranslated this way 1 time of its 136 uses · Strong’s G5456Noun  ·  Translated: voice 83, loud voice 13, sound 8, voices 8

    Luke 23:23 But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices for Jesus to be crucified. And their clamor prevailed.

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  • κραυγή kraugḗa shout, clamor, outcrytranslated this way 1 time of its 6 uses · Strong’s G2906Noun  ·  Translated: cry 1, voice 1, clamor 1, outcry 1

    Acts 23:9 A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.