Shout
הֵידָדStrong’s H1959hedad (he-dad)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Hedad is the Hebrew word usually translated “shouting” and “shout”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.”
Meaning
- A shout, cheer, shoutingshouting · shout (of the foe)
How it's translated
- shouting 5
- a shout 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- Isaiah 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 16:10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
- Jeremiah 25:30Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
- Jeremiah 48:33And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
- Jeremiah 51:14The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
Hebrew dictionary
הֵידָד hedad · shout
1) a shout, cheer, shouting 1a) shouting 1b) shout (of the foe)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shout” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHOUT, verb intransitive
To utter a sudden and loud outcry, usually in joy, triumph or exultation, or to animate soldiers in an onset.
- “It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery” Exodus 32:18“When ye hear th esound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout” Joshua 6:5
All definitions and other forms of “shout”
SHOUT, noun
A loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden outcry, particularly of a multitude of men, expressing joy, triumph, exultation or animated courage. It is sometimes intended in derision.
SHOUT, verb transitive
To treat with shouts or clamor.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.