This verb describes a harsh, braying sound—typically of a wild donkey, but extended metaphorically to human cries of desperation. Job uses it first in a rhetorical question about the wild ass braying over grass (Job 6:5), illustrating that complaints arise only when there's genuine need. Later, it describes the pitiful cries of social outcasts living in the wilderness (Job 30:7). The root connections in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic consistently associate this word with the donkey's distinctive harsh call.