Siach שִׂיחַ

Siach (Hebrew שִׂיחַ, Strong's H7879) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “complaint”. It occurs 13 times in 13 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Siach, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 1:16
  Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 18:27
  And 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.At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!”

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 9:11
  Then 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.When Jehu went out to the servants of his master, they asked, “Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?” “You know his kind and their babble,” he replied.

Job

• Job 7:13
  When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
• Job 9:27
  If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
• Job 10:1
  My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Job 21:4
  As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
• Job 23:2
  Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Psalms

• Psalm 55:2
  Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught
• Psalm 64:1
  Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
• Psalm 104:34
  My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.
• Psalm 142:2
  I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 23:29
  Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).