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Lexicon :: Strong's H6817 - ṣāʿaq

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צָעַק
Transliteration
ṣāʿaq
Pronunciation
tsaw-ak'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1947

Strong’s Definitions

צָעַק tsâʻaq, tsaw-ak'; a primitive root; to shriek; (by implication) to proclaim (an assembly):—× at all, call together, cry (out), gather (selves) (together).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 55x

The KJV translates Strong's H6817 in the following manner: cry (44x), gather together (4x), cry out (3x), at all (1x), called (1x), gathered (1x), call together (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 55x
The KJV translates Strong's H6817 in the following manner: cry (44x), gather together (4x), cry out (3x), at all (1x), called (1x), gathered (1x), call together (1x).

  1. to cry, cry out, call, cry for help

    1. (Qal)

      1. to cry, cry out (for help)

      2. to cry, cry out (in distress or need)

      3. to make outcry, clamour

    2. (Niphal) to be summoned

    3. (Piel) to cry aloud (in grief)

    4. (Hiphil) to call together

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צָעַק tsâʻaq, tsaw-ak'; a primitive root; to shriek; (by implication) to proclaim (an assembly):—× at all, call together, cry (out), gather (selves) (together).
STRONGS H6817: Abbreviations
† צָעַק verb cry, cry out, call (|| זָעַק; Late Hebrew id.; Arabic bdb085814 perhaps originally sound as thunder, compare bdb085815 thunderbolt, bdb085816 bellow (of bull)); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singularצ׳ 1 Kings 20:39; Lamentations 2:18, 3rd person feminine singular צָֽעֲקָה Deuteronomy 22:24 +, etc.; Imperfect יִצְעַק Exodus 23:22 +, etc.; Imperative feminine singular וְצַעֲקִי Jeremiah 22:20, וּצֳעָ֑קִי Jeremiah 22:20; feminine plural צְעַקְנָה Jeremiah 49:3; Infinitive absolute צָעֹק Exodus 22:22; construct לִצְעֹק 2 Kings 8:3; Participle feminine singular absolute צֹעֶ֫קֶת 2 Kings 8:5; masculine plural צֹעֲקִים Genesis 4:10; Exodus 5:8; —
1. cry, cry out, for help, usually with אֶל person; —
a. unto man Genesis 41:55 (E; + ל of thing), Numbers 11:3 (JE), 1 Kings 20:39; 2 Kings 6:26; 2 Kings 8:3 (+ אֶל of thing), 2 Kings 8:5 (+ עַל of thing); followed by אמר Exodus 5:15 (J), 2 Kings 4:1 and (אֶל person omitted) Exodus 5:8 (J), 2 Kings 4:40; 2 Kings 6:5.
b. especially unto י׳ : Genesis 4:10; Exodus 8:8 (+ עַלֿ דְּבַר of thing), Exodus 14:10, 15; Exodus 15:25; Exodus 17:4; Exodus 22:22 (צָעֹק יִצְעַק), Exodus 22:26; Numbers 12:13; Numbers 20:16; Joshua 24:7 (all J E), Judges 4:3; Judges 10:12; Deuteronomy 26:7; Isaiah 19:20 (+ מִמְּנֵי of thing), Lamentations 2:18; Nehemiah 9:27; Psalm 107:6; Psalm 107:28; קוֺלִי וְאֶצְעָ֑קָה אֶלאֿ׳ Psalm 77:2, compare Psalm 34:18; with לי׳ 2 Chronicles 13:14: נֶגְדֶּ֑ךָ Psalm 88:2.
c. cry unto (אֶל) idol Isaiah 46:7.
2. absolute cry, cry out, in distress, need; — Genesis 27:34 (J; with accusative of congnate meaning with verb), Deuteronomy 22:24, 27; Isaiah 33:7 (|| בָּכָה), Isaiah 65:14 (|| הֵילִיל, opposed to רָנַן; with מִן of thing), Jeremiah 22:20 (twice in verse) (|| נָתַן קוֺל), Jeremiah 49:3 (|| הֵילִיל), Job 35:12; with object חָמָס Job 19:7 (|| אֲשַׁוַּע).
3. make outcry, clamour, Isaiah 42:2 (+ יִשָּׂא, יַשְׁמִיעַ קוֺלוֺ).
Niph.. be summoned (i.e. to arms), absolute; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular וַיִּצָּעֵק Judges 7:23, 24; Judges 12:1, so 3rd person masculine plural וַיִּצָּֽעֲקוּ Judges 10:17; 2 Kings 3:21, followed by אַחֲרֵי שָׁאוּל + accusative of location 1 Samuel 13:4.
Pi. Participle מְצַעֵק cry aloud, in grief, 2 Kings 2:12.
Hiph. call together הַמִּצְפָּה אֶל־י׳ אֶת־הָעָם וַיַּצְעֵק 1 Samuel 10:17.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:10; 4:10; 27:34; 41:55

Exodus

5:8; 5:8; 5:15; 8:8; 14:10; 14:15; 15:25; 17:4; 22:22; 22:22; 22:26; 23:22

Numbers

11:3; 12:13; 20:16

Deuteronomy

22:24; 22:24; 22:27; 26:7

Joshua

24:7

Judges

4:3; 7:23; 7:24; 10:12; 10:17; 12:1

1 Samuel

10:17; 13:4

1 Kings

20:39; 20:39

2 Kings

2:12; 3:21; 4:1; 4:40; 6:5; 6:26; 8:3; 8:3; 8:5; 8:5

2 Chronicles

13:14

Nehemiah

9:27

Job

19:7; 35:12

Psalms

34:18; 77:2; 88:2; 107:6; 107:28

Isaiah

19:20; 33:7; 42:2; 46:7; 65:14

Jeremiah

22:20; 22:20; 22:20; 49:3; 49:3

Lamentations

2:18; 2:18

H6817

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6817 matches the Hebrew צָעַק (ṣāʿaq),
which occurs 55 times in 53 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 4:10–Isa 65:14)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10 - The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:34 - When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me—me too, my father!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:55 - When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:8 - But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don’t reduce the quota. They are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:15 - Then the Israelite overseers went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why have you treated your servants this way?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:12 - After Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the LORD about the frogs he had brought on Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:10 - As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:15 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:25 - Then Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became fit to drink. There the LORD issued a ruling and instruction for them and put them to the test.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:4 - Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:23 - If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:27 - because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:2 - When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire died down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:13 - So Moses cried out to the LORD, “Please, God, heal her!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:16 - but when we cried out to the LORD, he heard our cry and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. “Now we are here at Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:24 - you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:27 - for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:7 - Then we cried out to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our misery, toil and oppression.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:7 - But they cried to the LORD for help, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians; he brought the sea over them and covered them. You saw with your own eyes what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:3 - Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the LORD for help.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:23 - Israelites from Naphtali, Asher and all Manasseh were called out, and they pursued the Midianites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24 - Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out and they seized the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:12 - the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites[fn] oppressed you and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:17 - When the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1 - The Ephraimite forces were called out, and they crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We’re going to burn down your house over your head.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:17 - Samuel summoned the people of Israel to the LORD at Mizpah

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:4 - So all Israel heard the news: “Saul has attacked the Philistine outpost, and now Israel has become obnoxious to the Philistines.” And the people were summoned to join Saul at Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:39 - As the king passed by, the prophet called out to him, “Your servant went into the thick of the battle, and someone came to me with a captive and said, ‘Guard this man. If he is missing, it will be your life for his life, or you must pay a talent[fn] of silver.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:12 - Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore it in two.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:21 - Now all the Moabites had heard that the kings had come to fight against them; so every man, young and old, who could bear arms was called up and stationed on the border.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:1 - The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the LORD. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:40

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:40 - The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:5 - As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. “Oh no, my lord!” he cried out. “It was borrowed!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:26 - As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:3 - At the end of the seven years she came back from the land of the Philistines and went to appeal to the king for her house and land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:5 - Just as Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, the woman whose son Elisha had brought back to life came to appeal to the king for her house and land. Gehazi said, “This is the woman, my lord the king, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:14 - Judah turned and saw that they were being attacked at both front and rear. Then they cried out to the LORD. The priests blew their trumpets

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:27 - So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies, who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion you gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:7 - “Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:12 - He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:17 - The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 77:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:1 - [fn]For the director of music. For Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm. I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:1 - [fn]A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to mahalath leannoth.[fn] A maskil[fn] of Heman the Ezrahite. LORD, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:6 - Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:28 - Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:20 - It will be a sign and witness to the LORD Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:7 - Look, their brave men cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:2 - He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:7 - They lift it to their shoulders and carry it; they set it up in its place, and there it stands. From that spot it cannot move. Even though someone cries out to it, it cannot answer; it cannot save them from their troubles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:14 - My servants will sing out of the joy of their hearts, but you will cry out from anguish of heart and wail in brokenness of spirit.

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