rina · cry, shout

What it means

rina (רִנָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cry, shout”.

Cry: a loud shout, of joy or of pleading, depending on the case.

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. Glad cries or songs.
2. A plea to God for help.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cry ×12
• shouts of joy ×11
• joyful shouting ×6
• shout of joy ×3
• shouting for joy ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Psalms×15
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×9
• Jeremiah×3
• Zephaniah×1

• 1 Kings 8:28

  Yet turn to the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, YHWH my Elohim, to listen to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you today;

• 1 Kings 22:36

  And the cry passed through the camp as the sun was going down, saying, “Each man to his city, and each man to his land!”

• 2 Chronicles 6:19

  Turn to the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, YHWH my Elohim, to listen to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you,

• 2 Chronicles 20:22

  And at the time they began with shouts of joy and praise, YHWH set ambushes against the sons of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, who were coming against Judah; and they were struck down.

• Psalms 17:1

  A prayer of David. Hear, YHWH, what is righteous; heed my cry; give ear to my prayer, which comes not from lips of deceit.

• Psalms 30:5

  For a moment in his anger, life in his favor; in the evening weeping lodges, and at morning, a shout of joy.

• Psalms 42:4

  These things I remember, and I pour out within me my soul: how I would pass along with the throng; I would walk with them to the house of Elohim, with the voice of shouts of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

• Psalms 47:1

  For the director. Of the sons of Korah. A psalm. All you peoples, clap your hands; shout to Elohim with the voice of shouts of joy.

• Psalms 61:1

  For the director. On a stringed instrument. Of David. Hear, Elohim, my cry; attend to my prayer.

• Psalms 88:2

  Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry.

• Psalms 105:43

  And he brought out his people with rejoicing, with shouts of joy his chosen ones.

• Psalms 106:44

  And he looked on their distress when he heard their cry.

• Psalms 107:22

  And let them sacrifice sacrifices of thanksgiving, and recount his works with shouts of joy.

• Psalms 118:15

  The sound of shouts of joy and of salvation is in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of YHWH does valiantly;

• Psalms 119:169

  Let my cry come near before you, YHWH; according to your word make me understand.

• Psalms 126:2

  Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “YHWH has done great things with these.”

• Psalms 126:5

  Those who sow with tears with shouts of joy will reap.

• Psalms 126:6

  Going he goes and weeping, the one who carries the bag of seed; coming he will come with shouts of joy, carrying his sheaves.

• Psalms 142:6

  Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my pursuers, for they are stronger than I.

• Proverbs 11:10

  At the prosperity of the righteous the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.

• Isaiah 14:7

  The whole earth is at rest, is quiet; they break out into joyful shouting.

• Isaiah 35:10

  And the ransomed of YHWH will return and come to Zion with shouting for joy, and eternal gladness will be on their heads; joy and gladness they will obtain, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

• Isaiah 43:14

  Thus says YHWH, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I have brought down as fugitives all of them, and the Chaldeans, in the ships of their shout of joy.

• Isaiah 44:23

  Shout for joy, heavens, for YHWH has done it; shout aloud, depths of the earth; break forth, mountains, into a shout of joy, forest and every tree in it; for YHWH has redeemed Jacob, and in Israel he glorifies himself.

• Isaiah 48:20

  Go out from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans; with a voice of joyful shouting declare, make this heard, send it out to the end of the earth; say, “YHWH has redeemed his servant Jacob.”

• Isaiah 49:13

  Shout for joy, heavens, and rejoice, earth; break forth, mountains, into joyful shouting; for YHWH has comforted his people, and on his afflicted ones he will have compassion.

• Isaiah 51:11

  And the ransomed of YHWH will return, and come to Zion with joyful shouting, and eternal gladness will be on their head; joy and gladness they will obtain; sorrow and sighing will flee.

• 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.

• Isaiah 55:12

  For with gladness you will go out, and in peace you will be led; the mountains and the hills will break forth before you into joyful shouting, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

• Jeremiah 7:16

  And you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up for them a cry or a prayer, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.

• Jeremiah 11:14

  As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up for them a cry or a prayer, for I will not be listening in the time when they call to me because of their evil.

• Jeremiah 14:12

  When they fast, I am not listening to their cry; and when they offer up burnt offering and grain offering, I do not accept them; but by the sword and by famine and by pestilence I am consuming them.”

• Zephaniah 3:17

  YHWH your Elohim is in your midst, the mighty one who saves; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will be silent in his love, he will exult over you with shouts of joy.”