KJV dictionary & concordance
An expression or utterance of grief, pain, trouble, or heaviness; a lament.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Samuel 1:16
Complete exact-word concordance
Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and griefe, haue I spoken hitherto.
1611 marginal noteOr, meditation.
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
When I say, My bed shal comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint:
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leaue off my heauinesse, and comfort my selfe.
MY soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
¶ My soule is weary of my life, I will leaue my complaint vpon my selfe; I will speake in the bitternesse of my soule.
1611 marginal noteOr, eue of while I liue.
As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
As for mee, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
1611 marginal noteHeb. shortened.
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Euen to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heauier then my groning.
1611 marginal noteHebr. my hand.
Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
Attend vnto me, and heare me: I mourne in my complaint, and make a noise.
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
I powred out my complaint before him: I shewed before him my trouble.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Expression of grief, regret, pain ...; lamentation; murmuring.
