Word

צָעַק

tsâʻaq · H6817 · Hebrew · 55 occurrences

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Meanings

to cry out, call for help or appeal

An action by which humans raise their voice in times of hardship, hoping to receive help from God or someone else

Examples
Genesis 4:10 Then He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to Me from the ground.
Genesis 27:34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, me as well, my father!”
Genesis 41:55 So when all the land of Egypt suffered famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; whatever he says to you, you shall do.”
to call together, gather, muster or assemble

An action by which humans are called together as a group for a certain activity, usually for battle

Examples
Judges 7:23 And the men of Israel were summoned from Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and they pursued Midian.
Judges 7:24 Then Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take control of the waters ahead of them, as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they took control of the waters as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.
Judges 10:17 Then the sons of Ammon were summoned, and they camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel gathered together and camped in Mizpah.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

54 occurrences in 20 groups

Not stated: they 10
Not stated: he, she or it 8
בֵּןson 3
אִישׁman, person, each 3
מֹשֶׁהMoses 3
עַםpeople 3
Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (15) 15

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

חָמָסviolence, wrong 1
עַםpeople 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

36 occurrences in 23 groups

אֵלto, toward+ יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 13
לto/for+ אָמַרto say 6
אֵלto, toward+ נִיme 5
אֵלto, toward+ מֶלֶךְking 3
Other words · 19 groups that occur once or twice (22) 22

With adverbsAdverbs

3 occurrences in 2 groups

לֹאnot 2
שָׁםthere 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 7 words

שָׁוַע shâvaʻ · H7768 · to cry out, to cry for help: Both words are verbs of loud vocal outcry and shouting, overlapping in the senses "cry out" and "shout." צָעַק (tsâʻaq, H6817) has a slightly broader range, including senses of gathering, but the core sense of crying out is shared.
צָוַח tsâvach · H6681 · to cry out: The target lexeme and צוּח are both action verbs denoting vocal outcry or shouting, and are near-synonyms describing similar vocal expression.
רוּעַ rûwaʻ · H7321 · to shout, to cry out, to sound an alarm: Both words denote loud vocal utterances (shouting, crying out).
צָרַח tsârach · H6873 · to cry out: The target lexeme (‘to cry out, call together’) and צָרַח (‘to cry, roar’) both denote loud vocal outcry, functioning as near-synonyms.
קָהַל qâhal · H6950 · to gather together, to assemble, to gather: The target lexeme, which also carries a ‘cry out’ sense, overlaps with קָהַל’s core sense of gathering or assembling people together, making the two near-synonyms in the gathering sense.
צָהַל tsâhal · H6670 · to neigh, to shout, to cry out: The target lexeme and צָהַל both denote loud vocal utterance, functioning as near-synonyms in describing shouting or crying out.
זָעַק zâʻaq · H2199 · to cry, to cry out, to cry for help: Both words denote crying out and shouting, with substantial overlap in sense; they are two distinct verbs that can substitute in context. צָעַק (tsâʻaq, H6817) also includes a sense of gathering or assembling.

In the other Testament 2 words

βοάω boáō · G994 · to cry out, to scream, to shout: βοάω (boáō, G994) is the standard Greek rendering for צָעַק (tsâʻaq, H6817) in LXX contexts involving loud crying out or calling for help, capturing the vocal urgency inherent in the Hebrew root across its range from distress calls to assembled gathering shouts.
ἀναβοάω anaboáō · G310 · to cry out, to scream, to shout: Greek ἀναβοάω (anaboáō, G310) renders Hebrew צָעַק (tsâʻaq, H6817) in the LXX when the Hebrew denotes loud crying out or shouting, capturing the vocal urgency component of the Hebrew root's semantic range.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Shout002004001009005: צָעַק most often means to cry out, as of Abel's blood crying out from the ground in Genesis 4:10, Esau's bitter cry in Genesis 27:34, Egypt's people crying out to Pharaoh for bread in Genesis 41:55, and Israel's foremen crying out to Pharaoh in Exodus 5:8 and 5:15.
Gather002003002013: This domain's connection to צָעַק is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of crying out in distress rather than gathering people together, though the word elsewhere carries the sense of calling people together to assemble.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

צָעַקtsâʻaq · H6817צַעֲקָה tsaʻăqâh · H6818 · outcry · 21×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6817. tsaaq צָעַק verb cry, cry out, call (|| זָעַק; Late Hebrew id.; Arabic perhaps…

H6817. tsaaq
צָעַק verb cry, cry out, call (|| זָעַק; Late Hebrew id.; Arabic perhaps originally sound as thunder, compare thunderbolt, bellow (of bull)); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular׳צ 1Ki 20:39; Lam 2:18, Lam 2:3feminine singular צָֽעֲקָה Deu 22:24 +, etc.; Imperfect יִצְעַק Exo 23:22 +, etc.; Imperative feminine singular וְצַעֲקִי Jer 22:20, וּצֳעָ֑קִי Jer 22:20; feminine plural צְעַקְנָה Jer 49:3; Infinitive absolute צָעֹק Exo 22:22; construct לִצְעֹק 2Ki 8:3; Participle feminine singular absolute צֹעֶ֫קֶת 2Ki 8:5; masculine plural צֹעֲקִים Gen 4:10; Exo 5:8; —
1 cry, cry out, for help, usually with אֶל person; —
a. unto man Gen 41:55 (E; + ל of thing), Num 11:3 (JE), 1Ki 20:39; 2Ki 6:26; 2Ki 8:3 (+ אֶל of thing), 2Ki 8:5 (+ עַל of thing); followed by אמר Exo 5:15 (J), 2Ki 4:1 and (אֶל person omitted) Exo 5:8 (J), 2Ki 4:40; 2Ki 6:5.
b. especially unto ׳י: Gen 4:10; Exo 8:8 ( + דְּבַר עַלֿ of thing), Exo 14:10, Exo 14:15; Exo 15:25; Exo 17:4; Exo 22:22 (יִצְעַק צָעֹק), Exo 22:26; Num 12:13; Num 20:16; Jos 24:7 (all J E), Jdg 4:3; Jdg 10:12; Deu 26:7; Isa 19:20 (+ מִמְּנֵי of thing), Lam 2:18; Neh 9:27; Psa 107:6; Psa 107:28; ׳אֶלאֿ וְאֶצְעָ֑קָה קוֺלִי Psa 77:2, compare Psa 34:18; with ׳לי2Ch 13:14: נֶגְדֶּ֑ךָ Psa 88:2.
c. cry unto (אֶל) idol Isa 46:7.
2 absolute cry, cry out, in distress, need; — Gen 27:34 (J; with accusative of congnate meaning with verb), Deu 22:24, Deu 22:27; Isa 33:7 (|| בָּכָה), Isa 65:14 (|| הֵילִיל, opposed to רָנַן; with מִן of thing), Jer 22:20 (twice in verse) (|| קוֺל נָתַן), Jer 49:3 (|| הֵילִיל), Job 35:12; with object חָמָס Job 19:7 (|| אֲשַׁוַּע).
3 make outcry, clamour, Isa 42:2 (+ קוֺלוֺ יַשְׁמִיעַ יִשָּׂא, ).
Niph`al be summoned (i.e. to arms), absolute; Imperfect3masculine singular וַיִּצָּעֵק Jdg 7:23-24, Jdg 12:1, Songs 3 masculine plural וַיִּצָּֽעֲקוּ Jdg 10:17; 2Ki 3:21, followed by שָׁאוּל אַחֲרֵי + accusative of location 1Sa 13:4.
Pi`el Participle מְצַעֵק cry aloud, in grief, 2Ki 2:12.
Hiph`il call together אֶליֿ ׳וַיַּצְעֵקאֶתהָֿעָם הַמִּצְמָּה 1Sa 10:17.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Gather7 occurrences Shout47 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0