לָעַז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3937

talk indistinctly — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

talk indistinctly tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָעַז: vb. talk indistinctly, unintelligibly tree →

The whole BDB entry

vb. talk indistinctly, unintelligibly (NH id., in deriv. (לַעַז foreign language, לָעוּז foreigner), also murmur, remonstrate; Syriac ܠܥܶܙ talk indistinctly; Arabic لَغَزَ distort; iv. talk obscurely, ambiguously);—only Pt. עַם לֹעֵז ψ 114:1 a people talking unintelligibly (‖ מִצְרַיִם).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: [who] spoke a foreign language (1).

In the verses

Psalms 114:1 · tree →

בְּצֵ֣את יִ֭שְׂרָאֵל מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם בֵּ֥ית יַ֝עֲקֹ֗ב מֵעַ֥ם לֹעֵֽז׃

Word for word: when went.out Israel from Egypt the.house of.Jacob from a.people [who].spoke.a.foreign.language

JPS 1917: When Israel came forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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