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עִיט

it

to scream

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Strong’s H5860aVerb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

he shouted1

In the text

1 Samuel 25:14וַיָּעַט
Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he screamed at them.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[עִיט] vb. scream, shriek;—only Qal 1 S 25:14

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.