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Judges 12:1

“And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

צָעַקtsâʻaq · tsaw-ak'
H6817 · Hebrew

Definition: to shriek; (by implication) to proclaim (an assembly)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV renderings: [idiom] at all, call together, cry (out), gather (selves) (together).
Grammar: וַ — conjunction
יִּצָּעֵק֙ — verb Niphal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
Code HC/VNw3ms
Usage: Occurs 55 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:10 Genesis 27:34 Genesis 41:55 Exodus 5:8 Exodus 5:15

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Verse 2

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.