tsaaka · outcry

What it means

tsaaka (צַעֲקָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “outcry”.

Cry of distress.

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 anguished plea of one who suffers.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cry ×13
• outcry ×7
• crying ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×5
• 1 Samuel×2
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×4
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 18:21

  Let me go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to its outcry that has come to me; and if not, I will know.”

• Genesis 19:13

  for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become great before YHWH, and YHWH has sent us to destroy it.”

• Genesis 27:34

  When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with a great and exceedingly bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, me too, my father!”

• Exodus 3:7

  YHWH said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; for I know their sufferings.

• Exodus 3:9

  And now, look, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.

• Exodus 11:6

  There will be a great outcry in all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been and such as there will never be again.

• Exodus 12:30

  Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all Egypt; and there was a great outcry in Egypt, for there was no house where there was not one dead.

• Exodus 22:23

  If you do afflict him —for if he does cry out to me, I will surely hear his cry—

• 1 Samuel 4:14

  And Eli heard the sound of the outcry and said, “What is the sound of this tumult?” And the man hurried and came and told Eli.

• 1 Samuel 9:16

  “About this time tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him as leader over my people Israel; and he will save my people from the hand of the Philistines, for I have seen my people, for their cry has come to me.”

• Nehemiah 5:1

  And there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their brothers, the Jews.

• Job 27:9

  Will El hear his cry when anguish comes upon him?

• Job 34:28

  so as to bring to him the cry of the poor, and the cry of the afflicted he hears.

• Psalms 9:12

  For he who demands an accounting for blood has remembered them; he has not forgotten the cry of the humble.

• Isaiah 5:7

  For the vineyard of YHWH Tsevaot is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the planting of his delight; and he waited for justice, but look, bloodshed; for righteousness, but look, an outcry.

• Jeremiah 25:36

  The sound of the cry of the shepherds, and the wail of the nobles of the flock! For YHWH is devastating their pasture,

• Jeremiah 48:3

  A sound of crying from Horonaim: devastation and great breaking!

• Jeremiah 48:5

  For the ascent of Luhith, with weeping they go up it, weeping; for on the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of breaking.

• Jeremiah 49:21

  At the sound of their fall the earth quakes; there is a cry; at the Sea of Reeds its sound is heard.

• Zephaniah 1:10

  And it will happen on that day, declares YHWH, that there will be the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, and wailing from the Second Quarter, and a great crash from the hills.

And 1 more times.