Cry
צְעָקָהStrong’s H6818tsaaqah (tsa-a-qah)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsaaqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “cry of distress of”, “cry” and “cry of distress”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.”
Meaning
- Cry, outcryoutcry (against) · cry of distress (especially as heard by God)
How it's translated
- cry of distress of 4
- a cry 3
- a cry of distress 2
- according to outcry its 1
- outcry their 1
- cry of distress their 1
- cry of distress his 1
- the outcry 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 5
- Jeremiah 4
- Genesis 3
- 1 Samuel 2
- Job 2
- Nehemiah 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 19:13For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
- 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.
- Exodus 3:7And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
- Exodus 3:9Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
- Exodus 11:6And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
- Exodus 12:30And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
Hebrew dictionary
צְעָקָה tsaaqah · cry
1) cry, outcry 1a) outcry (against) 1b) cry of distress (especially as heard by God)
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.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.