Complaint
שִׂיחַStrong’s H7879siach (si-ach)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Siach is the Hebrew word usually translated “complaint my”, “musing” and “talk his”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.”
Meaning
- Meditation, complaint, musingplaint, complaint · following are uncertain
How it's translated
- complaint my 6
- in complaint my 3
- musing 1
- talk his 1
- complaint his 1
- meditation my 1
- complaint 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 5
- Psalms 5
- 1 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Proverbs 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 18:27And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
- 2 Kings 9:11Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
- Job 7:13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
- Job 9:27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
- Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 21:4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
Hebrew dictionary
שִׂיחַ siach · complaint
1) meditation, complaint, musing 1a) plaint, complaint 1b) following are uncertain 1b1) musing 1b2) anxiety, trouble 1b3) talk
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “complaint” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COMPLAINT, noun
- Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; a finding fault.“Even to day is my complaint bitter” Job 23:2
- The cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.
- The cause of complaint or of pain and uneasiness in the body; a malady; a disease; usually applied to disorders not violent; as a complaint in the bowels or breast.
- Accusation; a charge against an offender, made by a private person or informer to a justice of the peace or other proper officer, alleging that the offender has violated the law, and claiming the penalty due to the prosecutor.
All definitions
- Representation of injuries, in a general sense; and appropriately, in a writ of Audita Querela.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.