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And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
Read in context →Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Read in context →2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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ʼânan · aw-nan'
to mourn, i.e. complain
Strong's KJV usage: complain.
Strong's first: Lamentations 3:39Strong's last: Lamentations 3:39
Open full H596 profile →bâkâh · baw-kaw'
to weep; generally to bemoan
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, bewail, complain, make lamentation, × more, mourn, × sore, × with tears, weep.
Strong's first: Job 31:38Strong's last: Job 31:38
Open full H1058 profile →rîyb · reeb
properly, to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend
Strong's KJV usage: adversary, chide, complain, contend, debate, × ever, × lay wait, plead, rebuke, strive, × thoroughly.
Strong's first: Judges 21:22Strong's last: Judges 21:22
Open full H7378 profile →sîyach · see'-akh
to ponder, i.e. (by implication) converse (with oneself, and hence, aloud) or (transitively) utter
Strong's KJV usage: commune, complain, declare, meditate, muse, pray, speak, talk (with).
Strong's first: Job 7:11Strong's last: Job 7:11
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And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
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COMPLAIN, verb intransitive
1. To utter expressions of grief; to lament.
I will complain in the bitterness of my spirit. Job 7:11.
I complained and my spirit was overwhelmed. Psalms 77:3.
2. To utter expressions of censure or resentment; to murmur; to find fault.
And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord. Numbers 11:1.
3. To utter expressions of uneasiness, or pain. He complains of thirst. He complains of a head-ache.
4. To charge; to accuse of an offense; to present an accusation against a person to a proper officer.
To A B, one of the justices of the peace for the county of S, complains C D.
This verb is regularly followed by of, before the cause of grief or censure; as, to complain of thirst, of ignorance, of vice, of an offender.
5. To represent injuries, particularly in a writ of Audita Querela.
COMPLAIN, verb transitive To lament; to bewail.
They might the grievance inwardly complain
This use of complain is uncommon, and hardly legitimate. The phrase is properly elliptical.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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