The meaning of Complaining in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)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 II 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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