זָעַק
zâʻaq · zaw-ak'
to shriek (from anguish or danger); by analogy, (as a herald) to announce or convene publicly
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to shriek (from anguish or danger); by analogy, (as a herald) to announce or convene publicly
- to shriek (from anguish or danger)
- by analogy, (as a herald) to announce or convene publicly
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: assemble, call (together), (make a) cry (out), come with such a company, gather (together), cause to be proclaimed.
Letters
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to cut, to sustain › to see and know › what comes behind, the returning cycle
To cut, to sustain that works to see and know of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זָעַק above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
73 occurrences · 73 OT · 0 NT · 61 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- cried8 · 15%
- and cried7 · 13%
- and cry6 · 11%
- cried out4 · 8%
- cry3 · 6%
- shall cry3 · 6%
- and they cried2 · 4%
- i cried2 · 4%
- shall cry out2 · 4%
- were called1 · 2%
- called1 · 2%
- gathered together1 · 2%
- was gathered1 · 2%
- who also was gathered1 · 2%
- and when i called1 · 2%
- were gathered together1 · 2%
- what aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company1 · 2%
- not to cry1 · 2%
- and ye shall cry out1 · 2%
- that were with him assembled1 · 2%
- and he cried1 · 2%
- she cried1 · 2%
- crying1 · 2%
- i yet to cry1 · 2%
- assemble1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.