Genesis 18:20
And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
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Cry
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Revelation 14:18
And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
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44 verses
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11 verses
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22 verses
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11 verses
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22 verses
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11 verses
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33 verses
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33 verses
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22 verses
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33 verses
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11 verses
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22 verses
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33 verses
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32 verses
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22 verses
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11 verses
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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קָרָא
qârâʼ · kaw-raw'
37 times translated as this KJV form736 total Strong's occurrences
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
Strong's KJV usage: bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(-ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 13:45Strong's last: Zechariah 1:17
Open full H7121 profile →זָעַק
zâʻaq · zaw-ak'
21 times translated as this KJV form73 total Strong's occurrences
to shriek (from anguish or danger); by analogy, (as a herald) to announce or convene publicly
Strong's KJV usage: assemble, call (together), (make a) cry (out), come with such a company, gather (together), cause to be proclaimed.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 10:14Strong's last: Micah 3:4
Open full H2199 profile →צַעֲקָה
tsaʻăqâh · tsah-ak-aw'
18 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
a shriek
Strong's KJV usage: cry(-ing).
Strong's first: Genesis 18:21Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:10
Open full H6818 profile →זַעַק
zaʻaq · zah'-ak
17 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
a shriek or outcry
Strong's KJV usage: cry(-ing).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 18:20Strong's last: Ezekiel 27:28
Open full H2201 profile →צָעַק
tsâʻaq · tsaw-ak'
14 times translated as this KJV form55 total Strong's occurrences
to shriek; (by implication) to proclaim (an assembly)
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, call together, cry (out), gather (selves) (together).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 5:8Strong's last: Jeremiah 49:3
Open full H6817 profile →רִנָּה
rinnâh · rin-naw'
12 times translated as this KJV form33 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a creaking (or shrill sound), i.e. shout (of joy or grief)
Strong's KJV usage: cry, gladness, joy, proclamation, rejoicing, shouting, sing(-ing), triumph.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 8:28Strong's last: Jeremiah 14:12
Open full H7440 profile →שַׁוְעָה
shavʻâh · shav-aw'
11 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
a hallooing
Strong's KJV usage: crying.
Strong's first: Exodus 2:23Strong's last: Lamentations 3:56
Open full H7775 profile →שָׁוַע
shâvaʻ · shaw-vah'
6 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be free; but used only causatively and reflexively, to halloo (for help, i.e. freedom from some trouble)
Strong's KJV usage: cry (aloud, out), shout.
Strong's first: Job 30:20Strong's last: Habakkuk 1:2
Open full H7768 profile →κραυγή
kraugḗ · krow-gay'
3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
an outcry (in notification, tumult or grief)
Strong's KJV usage: :--clamour, cry(-ing).
Strong's first: Matthew 25:6Strong's last: Revelation 14:18
Open full G2906 profile →אָנַק
ʼânaq · aw-nak'
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to shriek
Strong's KJV usage: cry, groan.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 9:4Strong's last: Ezekiel 26:15
Open full H602 profile →βοάω
boáō · bo-ah'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to halloo, i.e. shout (for help or in a tumultuous way)
Strong's KJV usage: :--cry.
Strong's first: Luke 18:7Strong's last: Galatians 4:27
Open full G994 profile →κράζω
krázō · krad'-zo
2 times translated as this KJV form62 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to "croak" (as a raven) or scream, i.e. (genitive case) to call aloud (shriek, exclaim, intreat)
Strong's KJV usage: :--cry (out).
Strong's first: Luke 19:40Strong's last: Romans 8:15
Open full G2896 profile →עָנָה
ʻânâh · aw-naw'
2 times translated as this KJV form329 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce
Strong's KJV usage: give account, afflict (by mistake for 6031), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for 6031), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, × scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also 1042, 1043.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 32:18Strong's last: Isaiah 13:22
Open full H6030 profile →צְוָחָה
tsᵉvâchâh · tsev-aw-khaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a screech (of anguish)
Strong's KJV usage: cry(-ing).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 14:2Strong's last: Jeremiah 46:12
Open full H6682 profile →רוּעַ
rûwaʻ · roo-ah'
2 times translated as this KJV form46 total Strong's occurrences
to mar (especially by breaking); figuratively, to split the ears (with sound), i.e. shout (for alarm or joy)
Strong's KJV usage: blow an alarm, cry (alarm, aloud, out), destroy, make a joyful noise, smart, shout (for joy), sound an alarm, triumph.
Strong's first: Isaiah 42:13Strong's last: Micah 4:9
Open full H7321 profile →κραυγάζω
kraugázō · krow-gad'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to clamor
Strong's KJV usage: :--cry out.
Strong's first: Matthew 12:19Strong's last: Matthew 12:19
Open full G2905 profile →עָרַג
ʻârag · aw-rag'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to long for
Strong's KJV usage: cry, pant.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joel 1:20Strong's last: Joel 1:20
Open full H6165 profile →פָּעָה
pâʻâh · paw-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to scream
Strong's KJV usage: cry.
Strong's first: Isaiah 42:14Strong's last: Isaiah 42:14
Open full H6463 profile →צָרַח
tsârach · tsaw-rakh'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to be clear (in tone, i.e. shrill), i.e. to whoop
Strong's KJV usage: cry, roar.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Zephaniah 1:14Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:14
Open full H6873 profile →קוֹל
qôwl · kole
1 times translated as this KJV form496 total Strong's occurrences
a voice or sound
Strong's KJV usage: aloud, bleating, crackling, cry ( out), fame, lightness, lowing, noise, hold peace, (pro-) claim, proclamation, sing, sound, spark, thunder(-ing), voice, yell.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 16:34Strong's last: Numbers 16:34
Open full H6963 profile →שׁוּעַ
shûwaʻ · shoo'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a halloo
Strong's KJV usage: cry, riches.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 30:24Strong's last: Job 30:24
Open full H7769 profile →שֶׁוַע
shevaʻ · sheh'-vah
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a halloo
Strong's KJV usage: cry.
Strong's first: Psalms 5:2Strong's last: Psalms 5:2
Open full H7773 profile →שָׁעַע
shâʻaʻ · shaw-ah'
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
(in a good acceptation) to look upon (with complacency), i.e. fondle, please or amuse (self); (in a bad one) to look about (in dismay), i.e. stare
Strong's KJV usage: cry (out) (by confusion with 7768), dandle, delight (self), play, shut.
Strong's first: Isaiah 29:9Strong's last: Isaiah 29:9
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H6817
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
H6817
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
H2199
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
H6818
A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
H7121
For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
H6682
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
H7121
They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
H2199
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
H2201
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
H6818
For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
H2199
Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
no direct Strong's tag
Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
H2201
From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
H6817
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
H6818
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
H7121
Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
H2201
At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
H2201
A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
no direct Strong's tag
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
H2199
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
H7775
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
H7121
Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
H602
And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
H2199
Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
H602
Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
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cry
CRY, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive cried. It ought to be cryed.
1. To utter a loud voice; to speak, call or exclaim with vehemence; in a very general sense.
2. To call importunately; to utter a loud voice, by way of earnest request of prayer.
The people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Genesis 41:1.
The people cried to Moses, and he prayed. Numbers 11:1.
3. To utter a loud voice in weeping; to utter the voice of sorrow; to lament.
But ye shall cry for sorrow of heart. Isaiah 65:14.
Esau cried with a great and bitter cry Genesis 27:34.
Also, to weep or shed tears in silence; a popular use of the word.
4. To utter a loud sound in distress; as, Heshbon shall cry Isaiah 15:4.
He giveth food to the young raves which cry Psalms 147:9.
5. To exclaim; to utter a loud voice; with out.
And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out. Luke 9:1.
6. To proclaim; to utter a loud voice, in giving public notice.
Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem. Jeremiah 2:2.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness. Isa 40.
7. To bawl; to squall; as a child.
8. To yelp, as a dog. It may be used for the uttering of a loud voice by other animals.
To cry against, to exclaim, or utter a loud voice, by way of reproof, threatening or censure.
Arise, go to Nineveh, and cry against it. Jonah 1:2.
To cry out, to exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor. 2. To complain loudly.
To cry out against, to complain loudly, with a view to censure; to blame; to utter censure.
To cry to, to call on in prayer; to implore.
CRY, verb transitive
1. To proclaim; to name loudly and publicly for giving notice; as, to cry goods; to cry a lost a child.
To cry down,
1. To decry; to depreciate by words or in writing; to dispraise; to condemn.
Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it.
2. To overbear.
CRY down this fellows insolence.
To cry up,
1. To praise; to applaud; to extol; as, to cry up a mans talents or patriotism, or a womans beauty; to cry up the administration.
2. To raise the price by proclamation; as, to cry up certain coins. [Not in use.]
To cry off, in the vulgar dialect, is to publish intentions of marriage.
CRY, noun plural cries.
1. In a general sense, a loud sound uttered by the mouth of an animal; applicable to the voice of man or beast, and articulate or inarticulate.
2. A loud or vehement sound, uttered in weeping, or lamentation; it may be a shriek or scream.
And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt. Exodus 11:6.
3. Clamor; outcry; as, war, war, is the public cry
And there arose a great cry Acts 23:9.
4. Exclamations of triumph, or wonder, or of other passion.
5. Proclamation; public notice.
At midnight there was a cry made. Matthew 25:6.
6. The notices of hawkers of wares to be sold int he street are called cries; as the cries of London.
7. Acclamation; expression of popular favor.
The cry went once for thee.
8. A loud voice in distress, prayer or request; importunate call.
He forgetteth no the cry of the humble. Psalms 9:12.
There was a great cry in Egypt. Exodus 12:30.
9. Public reports or complaints; noise; fame.
Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great--I will go down, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it. Gen 18.
10. Bitter complaints of oppression and injustice.
He looked for righteousness, and behold a cry Isa 5.
11. The sound or voice of irrational animals; expression of joy, fright, alarm, or want; as the cries of fowls, the yell or yelping of dogs, etc.
1. A pack of dogs.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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