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# שִׂיחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7879

**complaint** — used 14 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

complaint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7879/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׂיחַ: n.m. complaint, musing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7879/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ψ 104:34 complaint, musing;—abs. שׂ׳ 1 K 18:27; Pr 23:29; sf. שִׂיחִי 1 S 1:16 +, שִׂחִי Jb 23:2, שִׂיחוֹ 2 K 9:11 ψ 102:1;— plaint, complaint: Jb 7:13; 9:27; 10:1 (‖ מר נפשׁ), 21:4; 23:2 Pr 23:29 ψ 55:3 (‖ אָהִימָה); קוֹלִי בְּשִׂיחִי 64:2; שָׁפַךְ שׂ׳ לפני י׳ 102:1; 142:3. Foll. are dub.: musing, 1 K 18:27 (E) of a god, ‖ שִׂיג לוֹ, (so RV; SS ‘nachdenken’; Buhl ‘beschäftigt sein’; AV talk); ψ 104:34 of man (Buhl SS. Bae ‘Rede, oder Gesang’).—Vid. also \[שֵׂחַ\] infr. anxiety, trouble: מֵרֹב שִׂיחִי 1 S 1:16; (defined in MT by כַּעַס, cf. HPS; so Buhl SS, but perhaps = 1). the way in which he talks: שִׂיחוֹ 2 K 9:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: complaint (9); musing (2); my complaint (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 104:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.34/#tree)

יֶעֱרַ֣ב עָלָ֣יו שִׂיחִ֑י אָ֝נֹכִ֗י אֶשְׂמַ֥ח בַּיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* may.it.be.pleasing to him musing my I I.rejoice in Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Let my musing be sweet unto Him; as for me, I will rejoice in the LORD.

[Job 9:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.27/#tree)

אִם־אָ֭מְרִי אֶשְׁכְּחָ֣ה שִׂיחִ֑י אֶעֶזְבָ֖ה פָנַ֣י וְאַבְלִֽיגָה׃

*Word for word:* if my.saying \[is\] I.will.forget complaint my I.will.let.loose face my and I.will.be.cheerful

*JPS 1917:* If I say: 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer',

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7879.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7879/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).