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hebrew #3886 - לוּעַ luwa' (to swallow)


Original Word:לוּעַ
Transliteration: luwa'
Definition:to swallow, swallow down
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(loo'-ah)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

swallow down up

A primitive root; to gulp; figuratively, to be rash -- swallow down (up).


Englishman's Concordance

1) (Qal) to swallow, swallow down
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1098

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[לוּעַ, or לָעַע] verbswallow, swallow down (Syriac , lap or lick upJudges 7:5-7); —

QalPerfect3plural וְלָע֫וּ consecutive Obadiah 16 (Ges§ 67 R. 12); — absolute, figurative of nations drinking (cup of judgment). — Hi De talk wildly, see

II.לוע; We Now נָעוּreel, totter (compare Isaiah 24:20; Isaiah 29:9).

II. [לוּע, or לָעַע] verbtalk wildly (ᵑ0לָ֑עוּיָ֫לַע perhaps better would be לָעוּ֫, יִ֫לַע (√ לעה), compare Thes and Arabic , make mistakes in talking, BaZMG xii. 1887, 605, 614); —

QalPerfect3masculine plural לָ֑עוּJob 6:3, subject דברים (see Di); Imperfectמוֺקֵשׁ אָדָם יָ֫לַע קֹדֶשׁProverbs 20:25 it is a snare to a man that he should rashly cry, Holy ! (construction unusual, and perhaps text, error, compare Frankenberg; on form see Ol§ 243 a Anm; Böi. 296i. 375 f. derive from לעע; Str., Hiph`il from לעע).

לוץ see ליץ.


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3886. לָעַע (luwa') — 2 Occurrences

Job 6:3
HEB:כֵּ֝֗ן דְּבָרַ֥י לָֽעוּ׃
NAS: Therefore my words have been rash.
KJV: therefore my words are swallowed up.
INT: after that my words have been

Obadiah 1:16
HEB:תָּמִ֑יד וְשָׁת֣וּ וְלָע֔וּ וְהָי֖וּ כְּל֥וֹא
NAS: They will drink and swallow And become
KJV: yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not
INT: continually will drink and swallow and become had never

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