צָהַל
tsa.hal (H6670A)
to cry out
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# צָהַל (tsa.hal): To Cry Out The Hebrew verb צָהַל (tsa.hal) carries the basic meaning of "to cry out," indicating vocal expression that demands attention. With eight occurrences across the biblical text, this word appears with sufficient frequency to establish it as a recognized term in Hebrew vocabulary, though not among the most common expressions for speech or sound. The limited data provided indicates that tsa.hal functions as a verb of vocalization, yet without access to its specific contextual usages, the precise range of this cry—whether it expresses joy, distress, command, or other emotional states—remains defined only by its fundamental semantic content. The word occupies a particular niche in biblical Hebrew's vocabulary for human vocal expression, distinct enough to warrant its own lexical entry rather than being subsumed under more general verbs of speech or sound. For readers of biblical texts, recognizing צָהַל signals moments when characters or speakers are represented as literally crying out rather than speaking in ordinary discourse. This distinction, though subtle, may carry interpretive weight in understanding the intensity or urgency of the moment being described, even as the specific nature of that vocalization requires examination of individual passages where the term appears.
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Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.
Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”
These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea.
“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.
They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
For Yahweh says, “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’
“Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;