Voice of God

For other uses, see Voice of God (disambiguation).
Ezekiel hears the voice, represented by the Hand of God, Dura-Europos synagogue, 3rd century CE.

In the Abrahamic religions, the voice of God is a communication from God to human beings through sound with no known physical source.

In rabbinic Judaism, such a voice was known as a bat kol (Hebrew: בַּת⁠ קוֹל baṯ qōl, literally "daughter of voice"), and was a "heavenly or divine voice which proclaims God's will or judgment".[1] It differed from prophecy in that God had a close relationship with the prophet, while the bat kol could be heard by any individual or group regardless of their level of connection to God.

  1. ^ The Jewish Encyclopedia: BAT ḲOL: Kohler, Kaufmann; Blau, Ludwig. "BAT ḲOL". JewishEncyclopedia.com – The unedited full-text of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia. JewishEncyclopedia.com. Retrieved 10 February 2016.