tsaaq (to cry) · Rightly

Meaning

To cry, cry out, call, cry for help(Qal) · (Niphal) to be summoned · (Piel) to cry aloud (in grief) · (Hiphil) to call together

How it's translated

and they cried out 7
and he cried out 5
crying out 3
he will cry out 3
and they were summoned 3
and it cried out 2
and we cried out 2
she cried for help 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Exodus 9
2 Kings 8
Judges 6
Psalms 5
Isaiah 5
Genesis 3

16 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Genesis 27:34And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.
Genesis 41:55And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
Exodus 5:8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
Exodus 5:15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
Exodus 8:12And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.
Exodus 14:10And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.

All 53 verses, by book

Genesis 3: 4:10 27:34 41:55
Exodus 9: 5:8 5:15 8:12 14:10 14:15 15:25 17:4 22:23 22:27
Numbers 3: 11:2 12:13 20:16
Deuteronomy 3: 22:24 22:27 26:7
Joshua 1: 24:7
Judges 6: 4:3 7:23 7:24 10:12 10:17 12:1
1 Samuel 2: 10:17 13:4
1 Kings 1: 20:39
2 Kings 8: 2:12 3:21 4:1 4:40 6:5 6:26 8:3 8:5
2 Chronicles 1: 13:14
Nehemiah 1: 9:27
Job 2: 19:7 35:12
Psalms 5: 34:17 77:1 88:1 107:6 107:28
Isaiah 5: 19:20 33:7 42:2 46:7 65:14
Jeremiah 2: 22:20 49:3
Lamentations 1: 2:18

Hebrew dictionary

צָעַק tsaaq · to cry

1) to cry, cry out, call, cry for help 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cry, cry out (for help) 1a2) to cry, cry out (in distress or need) 1a3) to make outcry, clamour 1b) (Niphal) to be summoned 1c) (Piel) to cry aloud (in grief) 1d) (Hiphil) to call together

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “cry” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CRY, verb intransitive

preterit tense and participle passive cried. It ought to be cryed.

To utter a loud voice; to speak, call or exclaim with vehemence; in a very general sense.
To call importunately; to utter a loud voice, by way of earnest request of prayer.“The people cried to Pharaoh for bread” Genesis 41:55“The people cried to Moses, and he prayed” Numbers 11:2
To utter a loud voice in weeping; to utter the voice of sorrow; to lament.“But ye shall cry for sorrow of heart” Isaiah 65:14“Esau cried with a great and bitter cry” Genesis 27:34
To utter a loud sound in distress; as, Heshbon shall cry Isaiah 15:4“He giveth food to the young raves which cry” Psalms 147:9

All definitions and other forms of “cry”

To exclaim; to utter a loud voice; with out.“And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out” Luke 9:39
To proclaim; to utter a loud voice, in giving public notice.“Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem” Jeremiah 2:2
To bawl; to squall; as a child.
To yelp, as a dog.“Arise, go to Nineveh, and cry against it” Jonah 1:2

CRY, verb transitive

To proclaim; to name loudly and publicly for giving notice; as, to cry goods; to cry a lost a child.
To decry; to depreciate by words or in writing; to dispraise; to condemn.
To overbear.
To praise; to applaud; to extol; as, to cry up a mans talents or patriotism, or a womans beauty; to cry up the administration.
To raise the price by proclamation; as, to cry up certain coins. [Not in use.]

CRY, noun

plural cries.

In a general sense, a loud sound uttered by the mouth of an animal; applicable to the voice of man or beast, and articulate or inarticulate.
A loud or vehement sound, uttered in weeping, or lamentation; it may be a shriek or scream.“And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt” Exodus 11:6
Clamor; outcry; as, war, war, is the public cry“And there arose a great cry” Acts 23:9
Exclamations of triumph, or wonder, or of other passion.
Proclamation; public notice.“At midnight there was a cry made” Matthew 25:6
The notices of hawkers of wares to be sold int he street are called cries; as the cries of London.
Acclamation; expression of popular favor.
A loud voice in distress, prayer or request; importunate call.“There was a great cry in Egypt” Exodus 12:30
Public reports or complaints; noise; fame.
Bitter complaints of oppression and injustice.
The sound or voice of irrational animals; expression of joy, fright, alarm, or want; as the cries of fowls, the yell or yelping of dogs, etc.
A pack of dogs.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.