Word

רָגַן

râgan · H7279 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

to complain, to grumble

Action by which humans speak with anger and resentment

Examples
Deuteronomy 1:27 and you grumbled in your tents and said, ‘Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to hand us over to the Amorites to destroy us.
Psalm 106:25 But grumbled in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
Isaiah 29:24 “Those who err in mind will know the truth, And those who criticize will accept instruction.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

Not stated: you (more than one) 1
Not stated: they 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with+ אֹהֶלtent 2

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לָמַדto teach, to learn 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Near synonyms 2 words

אָנַן ʼânan · H596 · to complain: Both words denote expressions of discontent or dissatisfaction and could substitute for each other in many contexts.
לוּן lûwn · H3885 · to complain, to grumble, to cause to complain: Both lexemes share membership in the very small "Complain" domain (3-4 members), indicating genuine semantic overlap in the complaining/murmuring sense. This is a real near-synonym relationship for לוּן (lûwn, H3885)'s murmuring sense (even though לוּן (lûwn, H3885) has other primary senses). The low occurrence count of רָגַן (râgan, H7279) (3 tokens) limits corroboration strength, but the tight domain pairing is meaningful evidence.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Complain002004001009002: The word means to murmur or grumble, directly illustrated by Israel who "grumbled in your tents" against the LORD (Deuteronomy 1:27; Psalm 106:25) and "those who criticize" learning instruction (Isaiah 29:24).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7279. ragan רָגַן verb murmur, whisper (Late Hebrew id.; ᵑ7 Ithpe`el bickbite, slander);…

H7279. ragan
רָגַן verb murmur, whisper (Late Hebrew id.; ᵑ7 Ithpe`el bickbite, slander); —
1 murmur (rebelliously): —
Qal Participle plural רוֺגְנִים Isa 29:24 murmurers;
Niph`al Imperfect3masculine plural וַיֵּרָֽגְנוּ Psa 106:25 and they murmured in their tents, so 2 masculine plural וַתֵּרָֽגְנוּ Deu 1:27.
2 whisper (maliciously), backlite, slander:,
Niph`al Participle נִרְגָּן backbiter Pro 16:28; Pro 18:8; Pro 26:20, Pro 26:22.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0