Definition

to emit a sound (animal, human or instrumental); by implication, to address in words or by name, also in imitation

Etymology

from G5456 (φωνή);

Word family

• φωνή phōnḗ

How the KJV renders it

• call (for)
• crow
• cry

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.