Strong's Hebrew · H2199

זָעַק

zâʻaq · zaw-ak'

assemble, call (together), (make a) cry (out), come with such a company, gather (together), cause to be proclaimed.

Definition

to shriek (from anguish or danger); by analogy, (as a herald) to announce or convene publicly

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 73 times in Scripture

Joshua 8:16

Then all the men of Ai were summoned to pursue them, and they followed Joshua and were drawn away from the city.

Psalms 107:19

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

Judges 6:7

Now when the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,

Judges 3:9

But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.

Judges 18:23

When they called out after them, the Danites turned to face them and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have called out such a company?”

Judges 3:15

And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.

Judges 4:13

he summoned all nine hundred of his iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the River Kishon.

Exodus 2:23

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

Judges 4:10

where he summoned Zebulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand men followed him, and Deborah also went with him.

Judges 6:6

Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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