ze.a.qah denotes an audible cry raised in distress, complaint, alarm, or public upheaval.

The attested forms describe an audible cry arising from affliction, grievance, alarm, or upheaval: it may be heard from an oppressed people, raised over a ruined city, or anticipated as a cry that will cease.

1. Audible cry in distress or upheaval · dominant

   The noun occurs for cries connected with calamity and suffering: in Genesis 18:20 the APB renders the clause "The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great," while in Jeremiah 50:46 an outcry is heard among the nations after Babylon's capture. In Nehemiah 9:9 it is the cry of afflicted ancestors that was heard, and Isaiah 30:19 uses the infinitive construct in the clause rendered "at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer you."

   Genesis 18:20Nehemiah 9:9Isaiah 30:19Jeremiah 48:4Jeremiah 50:46Ezekiel 27:28

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with "outcry," while some clauses use "cry," "crying," or "cries out." Because the English is a whole-verse translation, these variations confirm the surrounding scene without establishing separate lexical senses.