Numbers 11:1
And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
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Complained
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Psalms 77:3
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
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אָנַן
ʼânan · aw-nan'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to mourn, i.e. complain
Strong's KJV usage: complain.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 11:1Strong's last: Numbers 11:1
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sîyach · see'-akh
1 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
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).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 77:3Strong's last: Psalms 77:3
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And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
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I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
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complain
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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