teluna · grumbling

What it means

teluna (תְּלוּנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grumbling”.

Complaints against someone, muttered under one's breath.

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. Complaints muttered against someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• grumblings ×8
• grumble ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×6
• Numbers×3

• Exodus 16:7

  and in the morning you will see the glory of YHWH, because he has heard your grumblings against YHWH. And as for us, what are we that you grumble against us?”

• Exodus 16:8

  Moses said, “This will happen when YHWH gives you in the evening meat to eat and bread in the morning to the full, because YHWH has heard your grumblings that you grumble against him. As for us, what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against YHWH.”

• Exodus 16:9

  Moses said to Aaron, “Say to all the community of the sons of Israel, ‘Come near before YHWH, for he has heard your grumblings.’ ”

• Exodus 16:12

  “I have heard the grumblings of the sons of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am YHWH your Elohim.’ ”

• Numbers 14:27

  “How long shall I bear with this evil community that they grumble against me? The grumblings of the sons of Israel, which they grumble against me, I have heard.

• Numbers 17:5

  And the man whom I choose, his staff shall sprout; and I will silence from upon me the grumblings of the sons of Israel, which they grumble against you.”

• Numbers 17:10

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, so that you put an end to their grumblings against me, and they will not die.”

And 2 more times.