שִׂיחַsîyach

complaint, musing

Pronunciation: see'-akh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7879

Meanings

1. plaint, complaint, Following are dubious (Job 7:13; Job 9:27; Job 10:1)

2. musing (1 Kings 18:27; Psalms 104:34)

3. anxiety, trouble (1 Samuel 1:16)

4. talk (2 Kings 9:11)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 14 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 1:16 Don’t think I am a wicked woman! For I have been praying out of great anguish and sorrow.”
  • 1 Kings 18:27 About noontime Elijah began mocking them. “You’ll have to shout louder,” he scoffed, “for surely he is a god! Perhaps he is daydreaming, or is relieving himself. Or maybe he is away on a trip, or is asleep and needs to be wakened!”
  • 2 Kings 9:11 Jehu went back to his fellow officers, and one of them asked him, “What did that madman want? Is everything all right?” “You know how a man like that babbles on,” Jehu replied.
  • Job 7:13 I think, ‘My bed will comfort me, and sleep will ease my misery,’
  • Job 9:27 If I decided to forget my complaints, to put away my sad face and be cheerful,
  • Job 10:1 “I am disgusted with my life. Let me complain freely. My bitter soul must complain.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).