זָעַק zâʻaq — to shriek (from anguish or danger)
Translated in the KJV as assemble, call, cry, come with such a company, gather, cause to be proclaimed.
a primitive root; to shriek (from anguish or danger); by analogy, (as a herald) to announce or convene publicly.
zâʻaq in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 26Imperfect (yiqtol) 14Imperative 7Perfect (qatal) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 5Infinitive construct 3
And it came to pass in process of time, 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.
And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 4Imperative 1Infinitive construct 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.
Niph'al
Wayyiqtol 4Perfect (qatal) 2
And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
But the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abi–ezer was gathered after him.
And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›