siach · complaint, musing

What it means

siach (שִׂיחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “complaint, musing”.

Complaint, what someone says when pouring out his grief; also "musing, meditation."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What one says in pouring out grief.
2. What one thinks inwardly, whether a reflection or being lost in thought.
3. A person's way of speaking, his manner of expression.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• complaint ×10
• May my meditation ×1
• complaining ×1
• he is musing ×1
• talk ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×5
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×1

• 1 Samuel 1:16

  Do not regard your servant as a wicked woman, for out of the greatness of my complaint and my grief I have spoken until now.”

• 1 Kings 18:27

  And it happened at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, “Call out with a loud voice, for he is a god! Perhaps he is musing, or he has stepped aside, or he is on a journey; perhaps he is asleep and must wake up.”

• 2 Kings 9:11

  Jehu went out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this madman come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and his talk.”

• Job 7:13

  When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will help bear my complaint,’

• Job 9:27

  If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint; I will put away my sad face and brighten up,’

• Job 10:1

  My soul loathes my life; I will let loose my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

• Job 21:4

  Is my complaint to a human being? And why should my spirit not grow impatient?

• Job 23:2

  “Even today my complaint is rebellion; my hand is heavy on my sighing.

• Psalms 55:2

  Attend to me and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I am distraught,

• Psalms 64:1

  For the director. A psalm of David. Hear, Elohim, my voice in my complaint; from the dread of the enemy guard my life.

• Psalms 102:1

  A prayer of the afflicted one, when he grows faint and before YHWH pours out his complaint. YHWH, hear my prayer, and let my cry for help come to you.

• Psalms 104:34

  May my meditation be pleasing to him; I will rejoice in YHWH.

• Psalms 142:2

  I pour out before him my complaint; my distress before him I declare.

• Proverbs 23:29

  Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has quarrels? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?