Dictionary entry

Complaining

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kom-plan'-ing (tsewachah, "cry," "outcry," siach, "meditation," "complaint"): tsewachah is translated "complaining" (Ps 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 (compare2Ch 32:6;Ne 8:1); a picture of peace in the city (compareIsa 24:11;Jer 14:2); some render "battlecry"; siach (the Revised Version (British and American)Pr 23:29, the King James Version "babbling"), of the drunkard.