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title: זְעָקָה — cry · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זְעָקָה (2201), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 18 times: cry. BDB 1906: n.f. cry, outcry. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זְעָקָה

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«זְעָקָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cry** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 18 times · **Key:** 2201 · **BDB:** זְעָקָה

### Glosses

a.cry.of.distress (4); outcry (3); a.cry (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cry [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2201/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. cry, outcry [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2201/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cry, outcry, abs. ז׳ Je 18:22 + 5 times; cstr. זַעֲקַת Gn 18:20 + 3 times; sf. זַעֲקָתִי Jb 16:18; זַעֲקָתָם Is 15:5 + 3 times;— outcry, against, זַעֲקַת סְדֹם וגו׳ Gn 18:20 (J). cry of distress, concerning something זַעֲקַת־שֶׁבֶר Is 15:5 (obj. of יְעֹעֵ֑רוּ; cf. בִּבְכִי in prev. cl.); abs. v 8 (subj. of הִקִּיפָה, ‖ יְלָלָה); Je 18:22 (תִּשָּׁמַע ז׳), 20:16; 48:4; 50:46 Ne 5:6; 9:9 (all c. שׁמע), Je 48:34 (joined with נתן קול), Jb 16:18 Est 9:31 (lamentation), cf. 4:1 (ז׳ גְּדוֹלָה וּמָרָה, acc. cogn. c. זעק); specif. זעקת־דָּ֑ל Pr 21:13 cry of poor; קול ז׳ Is 65:19 (‖ קול בכי), Je 51:54 Ez 27:28. outcry, clamour זעקת מושׁל בַּכְּסִילִים Ec 9:17 (opp. דברי חכמים בְּנַחַת נשׁמעים).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זְעָקָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2201/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 48:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.4/)

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נִשְׁבְּרָ֖ה מוֹאָ֑ב הִשְׁמִ֥יעוּ זְּעָקָ֖ה צְעִירֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* it.will.be.broken Moab they.will.make.heard a.cry.of.distress its servants

*JPS 1917:* Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

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[Ezekiel 27:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.28/)

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לְק֖וֹל זַעֲקַ֣ת חֹבְלָ֑יִךְ יִרְעֲשׁ֖וּ מִגְרֹשֽׁוֹת׃

*Word for word:* to the.sound of.the.outcry your.sailors your they.will.quake pasturelands

*JPS 1917:* At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the waves shall shake.

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