158 occurrences

'Cry' in the Bible

And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessOutcry

I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing The WickedInvestigatingOutcry

for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah: and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it.

Verse ConceptsAngels as agents of judgmentSodom And GomorrahReprobatesGod Sending ProphetsOutcry

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.

Verse ConceptsResentment, Against PeopleSelf PitySuffering, Emotional Aspects OfVoicesBeing BitterPeople BlessingBitterness

And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsMonotonyPeace, Human Search ForPrayer, As Asking GodSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Of The InnocentCaptivity, Of IsraelCrying To GodMoving UpwardsCries Of Distress To GodMaking SlavesDeath Of Office HoldersParents Prayer For Their Childrenprocess

And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

Verse ConceptsGod, Suffering OfHearingReceptivenessSensitivityTaskmastersGod, All knowingGod Seeing Their AfflictionCries Of Distress To GodGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Sending His SonAfflictions

And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: moreover I have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

Verse ConceptsAnti semitismOppression, Nature OfVisionCries Of Distress To Godisraeloppression

And the number of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof: for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Examples OfNumbers ReducingNo Reduction

And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there hath not been, nor shall be any more.

Verse ConceptsUnique Events

And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfDeath Is UniversalPeople Getting Up

If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

Verse ConceptsAnswered PromisesCries Of Distress To GodGod Pays AttentionHurtvulnerability

And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome; but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

Verse ConceptsGroups ShoutingMusic To CelebratePeople OvercomingNot DefeatedOvercoming

And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

Verse ConceptsCovering The MouthPurity, Nature OfVeilsQuarantiningCovering HeadsFacial Hair

And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.

Verse ConceptsShoutingSwallowingIsrael Fleeing

Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto Jehovah against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

Verse ConceptsSabbatical YearThoughtYearsCancellation Of DeptDo Not Be StingyPeople Forgiving OthersPeople Without MercyHelping The Poor

in his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee.

Verse ConceptsEveningMastersBusiness EthicsMasters Duties Towards ServantsEmployersSunsetsDebtMoralityGiving Back

Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionemptinessSarcasmPraying AmissCompetition

And the men that died not were smitten with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto Jehovah our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.

Verse ConceptsRescueUnceasingAlways PrayingIndividuals Saving OthersPray For Us

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.

Verse ConceptsGod Not Answering

To-morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be prince over my people Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.

Verse ConceptsDeliverersGod's Action TomorrowAnointing KingsCries Of Distress To GodMaking KingsIndividuals Saving Others

For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more unto the king?

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of Deathgrandfathers

In my distress I called upon Jehovah; Yea, I called unto my God: And he heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry came into his ears.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GoddiscouragementHearingPrayer In DiscouragementStressVoicesDistressI PrayThe Temple In HeavenGod Paid Attention To Me

Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Jehovah my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee this day;

Verse ConceptsMercifulnessHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!God Answering Prayersservanthoodsupplication

that thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them whensoever they cry unto thee.

Verse ConceptsHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!

And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritHourHumourIronyRidicule, Nature OfSleep, SpiritualFundistractionsawakeningjokingvacation

And there went a cry throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his country.

Verse ConceptsVoicesSunsets

And it came to pass at the seven years end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals going home

Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Jehovah my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee;

If evil come upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before thee, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, and thou wilt hear and save.

Verse ConceptsdiscouragementPlaguesPrayer In DiscouragementStandingSwordsHelp In Shortage

Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Examples OfOutcry

And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea,

Verse ConceptsComing To The Red SeaGod Paid Attention To Them

Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesAshesLamentingThose Who Tore ClothesAshes Of Humiliation

to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had ordained for themselves and for their seed, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

Verse ConceptsHow To Fast

O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no resting -place.

Verse ConceptsHuman Blood Shed

Will God hear his cry, When trouble cometh upon him?

They are driven forth from the midst of men ; They cry after them as after a thief;

Verse ConceptsPeople Ostracised

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me: I stand up, and thou gazest at me.

Verse ConceptsDoubting God's ConcernDoubtGod Not Answering

Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

Verse ConceptsBrokennessDisastersCrying For Help

I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

Verse ConceptsBlackBeggarsThe SunBeggingBlack PeopleCrying For HelpSunshine

So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted.

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Answers ToCries Of Distress To GodGod Helps The PoorOutcryHelping The Poor

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Verse ConceptsArmsSuffering, Hardshipoppression

There they cry, but none giveth answer, Because of the pride of evil men.

Verse ConceptsArrogance, Characterizes The WickedGod Not Answeringarrogance

Surely God will not hear an empty cry , Neither will the Almighty regard it.

Verse ConceptsemptinessGod's WillGod Answering Prayers

But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he bindeth them.

Verse ConceptsSinful HeartsGrudgesHeart, Fallen And RedeemedResentment, Against GodResentmentNot PrayingHypocrisy

Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress, Or all the forces of thy'strength?

Verse ConceptsLimitations Of Strengtheffort

I cry unto Jehovah with my voice, And he answereth me out of his holy hill. Selah

Verse ConceptsHearingPrayer, Answers ToResponseGod AnsweredGod Hears My PrayerPsalm Interjections

Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God; For unto thee do I pray.

Verse ConceptsDependenceKnowing God, Effects OfPay Attention O God!

Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry; Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Verse ConceptsThe Lips Of The RighteousLipsRighteousness, Of BelieversPrayer, Offered WithAvoiding DeceitHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!

In my distress I called upon Jehovah, And cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into his ears.

Verse ConceptsDependenceCalling upon GodBeggarsCordsVoicesHelplessnessCryingI PrayThe Temple In HeavenGod Paid Attention To MeThe First TempleDespair

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not; And in the night season, and am not silent.

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightNightGod Not Answering

Hear, O Jehovah, when I cry with my voice: Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

Verse ConceptsCryingMercifulnessPrayer, Described AsPay Attention O God!

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

Verse ConceptsPsalms As PrayersBeggarsHandsMost Holy PlaceLifting HandsPay Attention O God!supplication

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimSilenceWeepingPilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfSpiritual DeafnessTearsCryingReckoned As ForeignersHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!Feelings Of Alienation

I will cry unto God Most High, Unto God that performeth all things for me.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, God's Promises OfFormulas For SuccessThe Most HighI Pray

I will cry unto God with my voice, Even unto God with my voice; and he will give ear unto me.

Verse ConceptsMusicI PrayGod Pays Attention

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.

Verse ConceptsGod, Titles And Names OfHeart, And Holy SpiritRenewed HeartPassionThe SoulLiving For GodsoulHeartfelt Prayer To God

Be merciful unto me, O Lord; For unto thee do I cry all the day long.

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodImportunity, Towards GodUnceasingAlways Praying

Let my prayer enter into thy presence; Incline thine ear unto my cry.

Verse ConceptsHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!

He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.

Verse ConceptsGod, The RockKnowing God, Effects OfRocksGod My Salvationfatherhood

Nevertheless he regarded their distress, When he heard their cry:

Verse ConceptsCryingGod Paid Attention To Them

Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he saveth them out of their distresses.

Verse ConceptsOppression, God's Attitude ToRescue

Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he bringeth them out of their distresses.

TAV. Let my cry come near before thee, O Jehovah: Give me understanding according to thy word.

Verse ConceptsPraying LoudlyTheologyBible, Described AsUnderstanding God's WordPay Attention O God!

I cry with my voice unto Jehovah; With my voice unto Jehovah do I make supplication.

Verse ConceptsPraying LoudlyCavesCaves As Places Of Refuge

Attend unto my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For they are stronger than I.

Verse ConceptsRescuePay Attention O God!Despairhelping

Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;

Verse ConceptsPraying LoudlyAnswered PromisesDiscernment

Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice?

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Human Importance

The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

Verse ConceptsNo ShoutingFaintnessFools

For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalGod, Will OfHorticultureNeglectOppression, Examples OfMetaphorical VineyardsKilling The InnocentOutcryGardens

For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.

Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards AssyriaThe Prophecy Towards DamascusLimitations Of Youthdamascus

Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim! hearken, O Laishah! O thou poor Anathoth!

Verse Conceptsdaughters

Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod, Titles And Names OfShouting For Joy

And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

Verse ConceptsPerils Of LuxuryPalacesAnimals, Types OfShort Time Till The End

Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou art melted away, O Philistia, all of thee; for there cometh a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

Verse ConceptsNorthSmokeOut Of The NorthOrderly ArmysmokingSmoke Used Poetically

And Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembleth within him.

My heart crieth out for Moab; her nobles flee unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesLamentingRoadsPeoples Who Fled

For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the wailing thereof unto Eglaim, and the wailing thereof unto Beer-elim.

And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto Jehovah because of oppressors, and he will send them a saviour, and a defender, and he will deliver them.

Verse Conceptsdefence, divineAnswered PromisesCryingThings As Signs

These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of Jehovah they cry aloud from the sea.

Verse ConceptsGod, Majesty OfWestOut Of The WestDepression

For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thou shalt weep no more; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear, he will answer thee.

Verse ConceptsAnswered PromisesGod Will AnswerNot Mourning

Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

Verse ConceptsenvoyWeepingPeople Mourning Catastropheheroes

And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.

Verse ConceptsOwlsWolvesWild GoatProvision Of Nightcatsvampires

Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodJerusalem, Significance OfPunishment, Nature OfRansomRedemption, In Everyday LifeSensitivityDouble PenaltyGod Has ForgivenTime Of PeaceJerusalem In Millennial Kingdom

The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.

Verse ConceptsLife, Brevity OfThe Frailty Of ManMere Men

Jehovah will go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up his zeal like a man of war: he will cry, yea, he will shout aloud; he will do mightily against his enemies.

Verse ConceptsBattlesMessianic AgeVictory, Over Spiritual ForcesZealWarriorsShout Of GodGod As A WarriorGod OvercomingWarBattleheroes

I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfGod, Suffering OfSilenceLabour PainsGod Being Silent

They bear it upon the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it standeth, from its place shall it not remove: yea, one may cry unto it, yet can it not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionemptinessHearingProtection, Not Found InShouldersCarrying IdolsIdolatryOthers Not AnsweringSalvation By Other Things

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Bellow (3 instances)
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Prescription (1 instance)
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Squall (2 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἀναβοάω 
Anaboao 
Usage: 3

זעק 
Za`aq 
Usage: 73

צהל 
Tsahal 
Usage: 9

צעק 
Tsa`aq 
Usage: 55

שׁעע 
Sha`a` 
Usage: 9

ἐπιφωνέω 
Epiphoneo 
Usage: 3

κράζω 
Krazo 
cry , cry out
Usage: 58

κραυγάζω 
Kraugazo 
cry , cry out
Usage: 7

אנק 
'anaq 
Usage: 4

אנקה 
'anaqah 
Usage: 4

זכוּכית 
Z@kuwkiyth 
Usage: 1

זעקה זעק 
Za`aq 
Usage: 18

ענה 
`anah 
Usage: 329

ערג 
`arag 
pant , cry
Usage: 3

פּעה 
Pa`ah 
cry
Usage: 1

צוחה 
Ts@vachah 
Usage: 4

צעקה 
Tsa`aqah 
Usage: 21

צרח 
Tsarach 
cry , roar
Usage: 2

קרא 
Q@ra' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 11

קרח קרח 
Qerach 
Usage: 7

רוּע 
Ruwa` 
shout , noise , ..alarm , cry , triumph , smart ,
Usage: 45

רנּה 
Rinnah 
Usage: 33

רנן 
Ranan 
Usage: 54

שׁוע 
Shava` 
Usage: 21

שׁוּע 
Shuwa` 
Usage: 2

שׁוע 
Showa` 
Usage: 3

שׁועה 
Shav`ah 
cry
Usage: 11

תּשׁאה 
T@shu'ah 
Usage: 4

ἀνακράζω 
Anakrazo 
Usage: 5

βοάω 
Boao 
cry
Usage: 11

βοή 
Boe 
cry
Usage: 0

ἐπιβοάω 
Epiboao 
cry
Usage: 1

κραυγή 
Krauge 
Usage: 5

κρύσταλλος 
Krustallos 
Usage: 2

φωνέω 
Phoneo 
call , crow , cry , call for
Usage: 30

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