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Strong's H6817 צָעַק (tsaaq)

Tsaaq means “call together” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H6817
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 53
Books 16

Strong's H6817 Quick Answer

Strong's H6817 צָּעַק (tsa`aq) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tsa`aq (tsaw-ak') v. 1. to shriek 2. (by implication) to proclaim (an assembly) It has 53 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include cry, out, all, cried, and together. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
tsa`aq (tsaw-ak') v. 1. to shriek 2. (by implication) to proclaim (an assembly)
Usage
53 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
cry, out, all, cried, and together

Meaning and Definition

tsa`aq (tsaw-ak') v. 1. to shriek 2. (by implication) to proclaim (an assembly) [a primitive root] KJV: X at all, call together, cry (out), gather (selves) (together).

Original Word
צָּעַק
Transliteration
tsa`aq
Derivation
Root: צעק
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6817. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to cry

Usage: 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

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How Strong's H6817 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tsa`aq, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

cry Exodus 5:8 10× out Exodus 8:12 all Exodus 22:23 cried Genesis 27:34 together Judges 10:17 call Judges 12:1 called 1 Samuel 10:17

How Strong's H6817 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 53 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6817 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H6817 in the Old Testament

53 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 4:10 KJV

And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

Genesis 27:34 KJV

And 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 41:55 KJV

And 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.

Usage Excerpts

First 53 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6817.

Genesis 4:10 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Genesis 27:34 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 41:55 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 5:8 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 5:15 Old Testament, KJV
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
Exodus 8:12 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.
Exodus 14:10 Old Testament, KJV
And 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.
Exodus 14:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
Exodus 15:25 Old Testament, KJV
And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
Exodus 17:4 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
Exodus 22:23 Old Testament, KJV
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
Exodus 22:27 Old Testament, KJV
For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
Numbers 11:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.
Numbers 12:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.
Numbers 20:16 Old Testament, KJV
And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
Deuteronomy 22:24 Old Testament, KJV
Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 22:27 Old Testament, KJV
For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
Deuteronomy 26:7 Old Testament, KJV
And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
Joshua 24:7 Old Testament, KJV
And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
Judges 4:3 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Judges 7:23 Old Testament, KJV
And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
Judges 7:24 Old Testament, KJV
And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan.
Judges 10:12 Old Testament, KJV
The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
Judges 10:17 Old Testament, KJV
Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.
Judges 12:1 Old Testament, KJV
And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.
1 Samuel 10:17 Old Testament, KJV
And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;
1 Samuel 13:4 Old Testament, KJV
And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
1 Kings 20:39 Old Testament, KJV
And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
2 Kings 2:12 Old Testament, KJV
And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
2 Kings 3:21 Old Testament, KJV
And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.
2 Kings 4:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
2 Kings 4:40 Old Testament, KJV
So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
2 Kings 6:5 Old Testament, KJV
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
2 Kings 6:26 Old Testament, KJV
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
2 Kings 8:3 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
2 Kings 8:5 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
2 Chronicles 13:14 Old Testament, KJV
And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
Nehemiah 9:27 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
Job 19:7 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Job 35:12 Old Testament, KJV
There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Psalms 34:17 Old Testament, KJV
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Psalms 77:1 Old Testament, KJV
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
Psalms 88:1 Old Testament, KJV
O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
Psalms 107:6 Old Testament, KJV
Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:28 Old Testament, KJV
Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
Isaiah 19:20 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
Isaiah 33:7 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
Isaiah 42:2 Old Testament, KJV
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
Isaiah 46:7 Old Testament, KJV
They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Isaiah 65:14 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
Jeremiah 22:20 Old Testament, KJV
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
Jeremiah 49:3 Old Testament, KJV
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
Lamentations 2:18 Old Testament, KJV
Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6817, grouped by book.

Genesis 3 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 9 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 3 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 6 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 8 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 5 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H6817 FAQ

What does tsaaq (צָעַק) mean?

Tsaaq (Strong's H6817) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "call together". tsa`aq (tsaw-ak') v. 1. to shriek 2. (by implication) to proclaim (an assembly)

How many times is tsaaq (צָעַק) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 53 linked usages for Strong's H6817 across 16 books.

Where can I study tsaaq (צָעַק) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6817 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate tsaaq (צָעַק)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cry, out, all, cried, together, and call. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.