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hebrew #1572 - גָּמָא gama (to swallow (liquids))


Original Word:גָּמָא
Transliteration: gama
Definition:to swallow (liquids)
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(gaw-maw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

swallow, drink

A primitive root (literally or figuratively) to absorb -- swallow, drink.


Englishman's Concordance

1) to swallow (liquids)
1a) (Piel) to swallow
1b) (Hiphil) to drink
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 358

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[גָּמָא] verbswallow (liquids), (Late Hebrew id.; compare Aramaic גְּמָא, גְּמַע, ; perhaps compare also Ethiopic jar, vessel see Di) —

Pi`elImperfectיְגַמֶּאאֶֿרֶץJob 39:24 figurative of horse in swift gallop; (this, however, possibly denominative from גּוּמָּא Late Hebrew, Aramaic גּוּמְּתָא, pit, hollow, i.e. he makes [paws or stamps] hollows in the earth).

Hiph`ilImperative feminine singular suffixהַגְמִיאִינִי נָא מְעַטמַֿיִםGenesis 24:17let me drink a little water, pray.


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 1572. גָּמָא (gama) — 2 Occurrences

Genesis 24:17
HEB:לִקְרָאתָ֑הּ וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הַגְמִיאִ֥ינִי נָ֛א מְעַט־
NAS: Please let me drink a little
KJV: and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little
INT: her her and said drink Please A little

Job 39:24
HEB:בְּרַ֣עַשׁ וְ֭רֹגֶז יְגַמֶּא־ אָ֑רֶץ וְלֹֽא־
NAS: and rage he races over the ground,
KJV:He swalloweth the ground
INT: shaking and rage races the ground does not

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