Roar, Roaring
properly of oxen, an onomatopeic word, "to low, bellow," is used of a lion, Rev 10:3.
"to howl" or "roar," onomatopoeic, of animals or men, is used of a lion, 1Pe 5:8, as a simile of Satan. "a noise" or "sound" (Eng., "echo"), is used of the "roaring" of the sea in Luk 21:25, in the best mss., "for the roaring (of the sea and the billows)," RV; some mss. have the present participle of echeo, "to sound," AV, "(the sea and the waves) roaring. See RUMOR, SOUND.
