si.ach denotes an expressed burden or grievance, and in a few contexts a person's musing or meditation.

The predominant usage concerns a person's voiced burden, grievance, or troubled expression, whether spoken before others or associated with inward distress. Two verses instead place the noun in contexts of musing and meditation.

1. Expressed grievance or troubled speech · dominant

   In Job 10:1, the construct-form noun occurs as Job says he will give free rein to his troubled expression and speak from bitterness of soul; the APB renders the clause "I will give free rein to my complaint." In 1 Samuel 1:16 it is linked with vexation and sustained speech, while Job 23:2 calls the speaker's complaint rebellion and Psalm 102:1 places it in a prayer-and-cry context.

   Job 10:11 Samuel 1:16Job 23:2Job 21:42 Kings 9:11Proverbs 23:29
2. Musing or reflective meditation · rare

   In 1 Kings 18:27, the absolute-form noun occurs among Elijah's mocking possibilities concerning a god's activity; the APB renders that possibility "he is musing." In Psalm 104:34, the construct form is associated with what may be pleasing to him and with rejoicing in the LORD; the APB renders it "May my meditation be pleasing to him."

   1 Kings 18:27Psalm 104:34

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses "complaint" in several burdened or contentious contexts, including Job 10:1 and Proverbs 23:29, but renders the reflective contexts as "musing" and "meditation" in 1 Kings 18:27 and Psalm 104:34. In several supplied verses the translation does not visibly isolate the noun's contribution.