צָעַק (b. h.; cmp. זָעַק) to cry; (cmp. צָוַוח) to complain. Mekh. Mishp. s. 18 (ref. to Ex. XXII, 22) יכול כל זמן שהוא צוֹעֵק וכ׳ lest you may think, when he cries, I hear him (take up his cause), and when he does not cry, I do not &c. B. Kam. 93ᵃ אוי לו לצוֹעֵק … הנִצְעָק woe to him who cries (prays for divine judgment to come down upon his neighbor) more than to him who is cried against. Ib. אחד לצועק ואחד לנצעק וכ׳ Ms. M. both are included (in Ex. l. c.) as deserving divine punishment, the crier and he who is cried against, only that they (in heaven) hasten to attend to the crier first &c. (differ. vers. quoted in Tosaf.). B. Mets. 75ᵇ שלשה צוֹעֲקִין ואינן נענין three persons cry in distress, and are not answered (because they are themselves to blame for their sufferings). Midr. Till. to Ps. XXXIV והיו צוֹצֲקוֹת שתיהן וכ׳ and both of them screamed and raged within &c. Men. 53ᵇ; a. fr.
Nif. - נִצְעַק to be complained of, v. supra.