Hebrew verb · H7878
שִׂיחַ
siachsee'-akh
to muse
20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sîyach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7878is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 18spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7878
to ponder, i.e. (by implication) converse (with oneself, and hence, aloud) or (transitively) utter
The King James renders it: commune, complain, declare, meditate, muse, pray, speak, talk (with).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
siach is rendered "to muse". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 5:10You who ride white donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, and you who travel the road, ponder
- The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.
The first use
You who ride white donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, and you who travel the road, ponder
Judges 5:10שִֽׂיחוּ׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- I will meditate4
- I will complain3
- tell2
- and I will meditate1
- complain1
- he meditates1
- I meditate1
- I will meditate on1
- it will speak to you1
- so let me meditate1
- tell out1
- they speak1
and 2 more, 20 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שִׂיחַ | siach | complaint | Uses13 |
| שִׂיב | sib | be gray | Uses5 |
| שִׂיד | sid | lime | Uses4 |
| שִׂיחַ | siach | bush | Uses4 |
| שִׂיחָה | sichah | meditation | Uses3 |
| שִׂיב | sib | be gray | Uses2 |
| שִׂיד | sid | to whitewash | Uses2 |
| שִׂיא | si | loftiness | Uses1 |
| שִׂיג | sig | pursuing | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 20, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
18 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אָשִׂ֑יחָה2
- אָשִֽׂיחָה׃2
- אֲשׂוֹחֵֽחַ׃1
- אָשִׂ֥יחַ1
- אָשִׂ֣יחָה1
- אָ֝שִׂ֗יחָה1
- אָשִׂ֓יחָה׀1
- וְ֝אָשִׂ֗יחָה1
- וְאָשִׂ֥יחָה1
- יְשׂוֹחֵ֑חַ1
- יָשִׂ֥יחַ1
- יָשִׂ֣יחוּ1
and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singular7HVqc1cs
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural3HVqv2mp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singular2HC/Vqc1cs
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVpi1cs
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqi3fs/Sp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqv2ms
Judges
one use
You who ride white donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, and you who travel the road, ponder
- שִֽׂיחוּ׃sichuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: tell out
1 Chronicles
one use
Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.
- שִׂ֖יחוּsichuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: tell
Job
two uses
Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- אָ֝שִׂ֗יחָהʾasichahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will complain
Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.
- שִׂ֣יחַsiachverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: complain
Psalms
fourteen uses
Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.
- אָשִׂ֣יחָהʾasichahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will complain
Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
- יָשִׂ֣יחוּyasichuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they speak
I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
- אָשִׂ֓יחָה׀ʾasichahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will complain
At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
- אָשִׂ֑יחָהʾasichahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will meditate
I will reflect on all You have done and ponder Your mighty deeds.
- אָשִֽׂיחָה׃ʾasichahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will meditate
Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.
- שִׂ֝֗יחוּsichuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: tell
I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.
- אָשִׂ֑יחָהʾasichahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will meditate
Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
- יָשִׂ֥יחַyasiachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he meditates
Make clear to me the way of Your precepts; then I will meditate on Your wonders.
- וְ֝אָשִׂ֗יחָהveasichahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: so let me meditate
I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.
- וְאָשִׂ֥יחָהveasichahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: and I will meditate
May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.
- אָשִׂ֥יחַʾasiachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will meditate
My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.
- לָ֝שִׂ֗יחַlasiachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to meditate
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands.
- אֲשׂוֹחֵֽחַ׃ʾasocheachverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I meditate
the glorious splendor of Your majesty. And I will meditate on Your wondrous works.
- אָשִֽׂיחָה׃ʾasichahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will meditate on
Proverbs
one use
When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
- תְשִׂיחֶֽךָ׃tesichekhaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: it will speak to you
Isaiah
one use
By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
- יְשׂוֹחֵ֑חַyesocheachverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he consider
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.