zaak · outcry

What it means

zaak (זַעַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “outcry”.

Cry, outcry: the cry of someone who suffers injustice and calls for help.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The plea of one who suffers or asks for help.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• cry ×11
• outcry ×5
• crying ×3

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Esther×2
• Job×1
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×6
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 18:20

  Then YHWH said, “The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is indeed very grave.

• Nehemiah 5:6

  I burned with anger greatly when I heard their outcry and these words.

• Nehemiah 9:9

  And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and their outcry you heard by the Sea of Reeds;

• Esther 4:1

  And Mordecai knew all that had been done, and Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried out with a great and bitter cry;

• Esther 9:31

  to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had established for them, and as they had established for themselves and for their offspring: the matters of the fasts and of their crying out.

• Job 16:18

  Earth, do not cover my blood, and let there be no place for my outcry.

• Proverbs 21:13

  Whoever shuts his ear to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and will not be answered.

• Ecclesiastes 9:17

  The words of the wise, in rest, are heard more than the cry of a ruler among the senseless.

• Isaiah 15:5

  My heart cries out for Moab; its fugitives as far as Zoar, Eglath-shelishiyah; for the ascent of Luhith, with weeping they go up it; for on the road of Horonaim they raise a cry of shattering.

• Isaiah 15:8

  For the cry has gone around the territory of Moab; as far as Eglaim its wailing, and Beer-elim its wailing.

• Isaiah 30:19

  For a people will dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you will certainly not weep; he will surely show you favor at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer you.

• Isaiah 65:19

  And I will exult in Jerusalem and rejoice in my people; and no longer will be heard in her the sound of weeping or the sound of crying.

• Jeremiah 18:22

  Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring upon them a raiding band suddenly; for they have dug a pit to capture me, and snares they have hidden for my feet.

• Jeremiah 20:16

  And let that man be like the cities that YHWH overthrew and did not relent; and let him hear a cry in the morning and a war cry at the time of noon,

• Jeremiah 48:4

  Moab is broken; her little ones have raised a cry.

• Jeremiah 48:34

  From the outcry of Heshbon to Elealeh, to Jahaz they have raised their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will be desolations.

• Jeremiah 50:46

  At the sound “Babylon is seized!” the earth quakes, and a cry among the nations is heard.

• Jeremiah 51:54

  A sound of crying from Babylon, and great breaking from the land of the Chaldeans!

• Ezekiel 27:28

  At the sound of the cry of your pilots the open lands will quake.