Complaining

COMPLAINING

kom-plan'-ing (tsewachah, "cry," "outcry," siach, "meditation," "complaint"):

tsewachah is translated "complaining" (Psalms 144:14, the Revised Version (British and American)) "outcry," "no complaining (outcry) in our streets," i.e. "open places" where the people commonly assembled near the gate of the city (compare 2 Chronicles 32:6; Nehemiah 8:1); a picture of peace in the city (compare Isaiah 24:11; Jeremiah 14:2); some render "battlecry"; siach (the Revised Version (British and American) Proverbs 23:29, the King James Version "babbling"), of the drunkard.


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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'COMPLAINING'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.