Lexical Summary luwa': to swallow, swallow down Original Word: לוּעַTransliteration: luwa' Phonetic Spelling: (loo'-ah) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to swallow, swallow down Meaning: to swallow, swallow down Strong's Concordance swallow down up A primitive root; to gulp; figuratively, to be rash -- swallow down (up). Brown-Driver-Briggs H3886. luwa ' [לוּעַ, or לָעַע] verb swallow, swallow down (Syriac , lap or lick up Judges 7:5-7); — Qal Perfect3plural 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 נָעוּ reel, totter (compare Isaiah 24:20; 29:9). II. [לוּע, or לָעַע] verb talk wildly (יָ֫לַע לָ֑עוּ ᵑ0 perhaps better would be יִ֫לַע לָעוּ֫, (√ לעה), compare Thes and Arabic , make mistakes in talking, BaZMG xii. 1887, 605, 614); — Qal Perfect3masculine plural לָ֑עוּ Job 6:3, subject דברים (see Di); Imperfect קֹדֶשׁ יָ֫לַע אָדָם מוֺקֵשׁ Proverbs 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. 296 Köi. 375 f. derive from לעע; Str., Hiph`il from לעע). לוץ see ליץ. |
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