Sounding
Bible Usage:
- sound used 89 times.
- sounded used 18 times.
- soundeth used once.
- sounding used 7 times.
- soundness used 4 times.
- sounds used once.
- First Reference: 1 Chronicles 15:16
- Last Reference: 1 Corinthians 13:1
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
SOUND'ING, participle present tense
1. Causing to sound; uttering audibly.
2. Trying the depth of water by the plummet; examining the intention or will.
3. adjective Sonorous; making a noise.
4. Having a magnificent sound; as words more sounding or significant.
SOUND'ING, noun
1. The act of uttering noise; the act or endeavoring to discover the opinion or desires; the act of throwing the lead.
2. In surgery, the operation of introducing the sound into the bladder; called searching for the stone.
SOUND'ING-BOARD, noun A board or structure with a flat surface, suspended over a pulpit to prevent the sound of the preacher's voice from ascending, and thus propagating it further in a horizontal direction. [Used in American churches.]
SOUND'ING-ROD, noun A rod or piece of iron used to ascertain the depth of water in a ship's hold. It is let down in a groove by a pump.
SOUND'INGS, noun Any place or part of the ocean, where a deep sounding line will reach the bottom; also, the kind of ground or bottom where the lead reaches.