צָעַק
tsâʻaq · tsaw-ak'
to shriek; (by implication) to proclaim (an assembly)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to shriek; (by implication) to proclaim (an assembly)
- to shriek
- (by implication) to proclaim (an assembly)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] at all, call together, cry (out), gather (selves) (together).
Letters
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- 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 pursue the straight path › to see and know › what comes behind, the returning cycle
To pursue the straight path that works to see and know of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צָעַק 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
55 occurrences · 55 OT · 0 NT · 46 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- cried9 · 23%
- gathered themselves together3 · 8%
- he cried2 · 5%
- and he cried2 · 5%
- and when we cried2 · 5%
- and cry2 · 5%
- crieth1 · 3%
- therefore they cry1 · 3%
- and cried1 · 3%
- cried out1 · 3%
- wherefore criest1 · 3%
- and they cry1 · 3%
- at all1 · 3%
- and it shall come to pass, when he crieth1 · 3%
- she cried1 · 3%
- and when they cried1 · 3%
- you; and ye cried1 · 3%
- were gathered together1 · 3%
- called1 · 3%
- were called together1 · 3%
- it, and he cried1 · 3%
- against them, they gathered1 · 3%
- now there cried1 · 3%
- that they cried out1 · 3%
- there cried1 · 3%
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.