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# זְעָקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2201

**cry** — used 18 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cry [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2201/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זְעָקָה: n.f. cry, outcry [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2201/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cry, outcry, abs. ז׳ Je 18:22 + 5 times; cstr. זַעֲקַת Gn 18:20 + 3 times; sf. זַעֲקָתִי Jb 16:18; זַעֲקָתָם Is 15:5 + 3 times;— outcry, against, זַעֲקַת סְדֹם וגו׳ Gn 18:20 (J). cry of distress, concerning something זַעֲקַת־שֶׁבֶר Is 15:5 (obj. of יְעֹעֵ֑רוּ; cf. בִּבְכִי in prev. cl.); abs. v 8 (subj. of הִקִּיפָה, ‖ יְלָלָה); Je 18:22 (תִּשָּׁמַע ז׳), 20:16; 48:4; 50:46 Ne 5:6; 9:9 (all c. שׁמע), Je 48:34 (joined with נתן קול), Jb 16:18 Est 9:31 (lamentation), cf. 4:1 (ז׳ גְּדוֹלָה וּמָרָה, acc. cogn. c. זעק); specif. זעקת־דָּ֑ל Pr 21:13 cry of poor; קול ז׳ Is 65:19 (‖ קול בכי), Je 51:54 Ez 27:28. outcry, clamour זעקת מושׁל בַּכְּסִילִים Ec 9:17 (opp. דברי חכמים בְּנַחַת נשׁמעים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a cry of distress (4); outcry (3); a cry (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 48:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.4/#tree)

נִשְׁבְּרָ֖ה מוֹאָ֑ב הִשְׁמִ֥יעוּ זְּעָקָ֖ה צְעִירֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* it.will.be.broken Moab they.will.make.heard a.cry.of.distress its servants

*JPS 1917:* Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

[Ezekiel 27:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.28/#tree)

לְק֖וֹל זַעֲקַ֣ת חֹבְלָ֑יִךְ יִרְעֲשׁ֖וּ מִגְרֹשֽׁוֹת׃

*Word for word:* to the.sound of.the.outcry your.sailors your they.will.quake pasturelands

*JPS 1917:* At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the waves shall shake.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2201.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2201/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).