To scream
עִיטStrong’s H5860it
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
It is the Hebrew word usually translated “it rushed”, “did you rush” and “shouted”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.”
Meaning
- To scream, shriek(Qal) to scream
- To dart greedily, swoop upon, rush upon(Qal) to dart greedily
How it's translated
- and it rushed 1
- and did you rush 1
- and he shouted 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 15:19Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
- 1 Samuel 25:14But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.
Hebrew dictionary
עִיט it · to scream
1) to scream, shriek 1a) (Qal) to scream
עִיט it · to pounce
1) to dart greedily, swoop upon, rush upon 1a) (Qal) to dart greedily
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scream” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SCREAM, verb intransitive
[English skirmish.]
- To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, as in a fright or in extreme pain; to shriek.
- To utter a shrill harsh cry; as the screaming owl.
All definitions and other forms of “scream”
SCREAM, noun
A shriek or sharp shrill cry uttered suddenly, as in terror or in pain; or the shrill cry of a fowl; as screams of horror.
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.