Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
cry
Usage: 1) cry, outcry 1a) outcry (against) 1b) cry of distress (especially as heard by God)
Tsaaqah means “shriek” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6818 צַּעֲקָה (tsa`aqah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tsa`aqah (tsah-ak-aw') n-f. 1. a shriek [from H6817] It has 20 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include cry, crying, and according. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
tsa`aqah (tsah-ak-aw') n-f. 1. a shriek [from H6817] KJV: cry(-ing). Root(s): H6817
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cry
Usage: 1) cry, outcry 1a) outcry (against) 1b) cry of distress (especially as heard by God)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tsa`aqah, 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.
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20 indexed usages in 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.
For 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.
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.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6818.
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.
For 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.
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.
And 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;
Now 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.
And 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.
And 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.
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli.
To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6818, grouped by book.
Tsaaqah (Strong's H6818) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "shriek". tsa`aqah (tsah-ak-aw') n-f. 1. a shriek [from H6817]
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's H6818 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6818 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cry, crying, and according. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.