Cry
רִנָּהStrong’s H7440rinnah (rin-nah)
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rinnah is the Hebrew word usually translated “shout of joy”, “cry of entreaty my” and “cry of entreaty”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:”
Meaning
- Ringing cryof entreaty, supplication · in proclamation, joy, praise
How it's translated
- a shout of joy 12
- with a shout of joy 8
- cry of entreaty my 4
- the cry of entreaty 2
- cry of entreaty their 2
- a cry of entreaty 2
- the cry 1
- to cry of entreaty my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 15
- Isaiah 9
- Jeremiah 3
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Proverbs 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 22:36And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.
- 2 Chronicles 6:19Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
- 2 Chronicles 20:22And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
- Psalms 17:1Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
- Psalms 30:5For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
- Psalms 42:4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Hebrew dictionary
רִנָּה rinnah · cry
1) ringing cry 1a) of entreaty, supplication 1b) in proclamation, joy, praise
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.