צָהַל

tsahal · shout for joy; shine

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6670 · appears 9 times in the Bible

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What it means

tsahal (צָהַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shout for joy; shine”.

To give shouts of joy, to make one's gladness heard; also to shine.

How to say it

tsa·hal

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. To raise the voice for joy.
  2. Neigh, like a horse.
  3. To give shine and a good look, as oil does to the face.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • Cry aloud ×2
  • Shout ×2
  • make shine ×1
  • neigh ×1
  • neighs ×1
  • shouted for joy ×1
  • they cry out ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Esther 8:15

    And Mordecai went out from before the king in a royal robe of blue and white cloth, and with a great golden crown and a mantle of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted for joy and was glad.

  • Psalms 104:15

    and wine gladdens the heart of mortal man, to make the face shine with oil, and bread sustains the heart of mortal man.

  • Isaiah 10:30

    Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! Afflicted Anathoth!

  • Isaiah 12:6

    Shout and cry out for joy, inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

  • Isaiah 24:14

    They lift up their voice, they shout for joy; over the loftiness of YHWH they cry out from the sea.

  • Isaiah 54:1

    “Shout for joy, barren one, who did not give birth; break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who did not have birth pains; for more are the children of the desolate one than the children of the married one,” says YHWH.

  • Jeremiah 5:8

    Well-fed horses in heat they have become; each neighs after his neighbor’s wife.

  • Jeremiah 31:7

    For thus says YHWH: “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout at the head of the nations; proclaim, praise, and say, ‘Save, YHWH, your people, the remnant of Israel.’

  • Jeremiah 50:11

    Because you rejoice, because you exult, plunderers of my inheritance, because you frisk like a heifer threshing, and neigh like stallions,