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Hebrew verb · H1897

הָגָה

hagahdaw-gaw'

to mutter

25 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: hâgâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1897is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 6 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 20
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1897

to murmur (in pleasure or anger); by implication, to ponder

The King James renders it: imagine, meditate, mourn, mutter, roar, [idiom] sore, speak, study, talk, utter.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

hagah is rendered "to mutter". It stands 25 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.

  • Ten of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 1:8This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.

The first use

This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.

Joshua 1:8וְהָגִ֤יתָ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Ten of the word's twenty-five uses are in Psalms.

The other 33 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • it will utter4
  • and I will meditate1
  • and we have uttered1
  • and who mutter1
  • and you will meditate1
  • certainly to moan1
  • do they devise1
  • he meditates1
  • he will groan1
  • I have meditated1
  • I meditate1
  • I moan1

and 10 more, 25 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

הָגָהhagahto removeUses3

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 25, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

20 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • יֶהְגֶּ֣ה5
  • תֶּהְגֶּ֣ה2
  • אֶהְגֶּ֖ה1
  • אֶהְגֶּה־1
  • הָגֹ֣ה1
  • הָגִ֥יתִי1
  • וְהֹג֛וֹ1
  • וְהָגִ֤יתָ1
  • וְהָגִ֥יתִי1
  • וְהַמַּהְגִּ֑ים1
  • יֶהְגֶּ֗ה1
  • יֶהְגֶּ֥ה1

and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular9HVqi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular3HVqi3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural3HVqi3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqi1cs
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural1HC/Td/Vhrmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative passive (hophal), infinitive absolute1HC/VHaa
  • Hc/Vqq1cs1Hc/Vqq1cs
  • Hc/Vqq2ms1Hc/Vqq2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute1HVqaa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural1HVqi1cp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqi2mp
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqp1cs

Joshua

one use
  • This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.

    Joshua 1:8

    • וְהָגִ֤יתָvehagitaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will meditate

Job

one use
  • my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

    Job 27:4

    • יֶהְגֶּ֥הyehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will utter

Psalms

ten uses
  • But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.

    Psalms 1:2

    • יֶהְגֶּ֗הyehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he meditates
  • Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

    Psalms 2:1

    • יֶהְגּוּ־yehgu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: do they devise
  • Then my tongue will proclaim Your righteousness and Your praises all day long.

    Psalms 35:28

    • תֶּהְגֶּ֣הtehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will utter
  • The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

    Psalms 37:30

    • יֶהְגֶּ֣הyehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it utters
  • Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.

    Psalms 38:12

    • יֶהְגּֽוּ׃yehguverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they devise
  • When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.

    Psalms 63:6

    • אֶהְגֶּה־ʾehgeh-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I meditate
  • My tongue will indeed proclaim Your righteousness all day long, for those who seek my harm are disgraced and confounded.

    Psalms 71:24

    • תֶּהְגֶּ֣הtehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will utter
  • I will reflect on all You have done and ponder Your mighty deeds.

    Psalms 77:12

    • וְהָגִ֥יתִיvehagitiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will meditate
  • they have hands, but cannot feel; they have feet, but cannot walk; they cannot even clear their throats.

    Psalms 115:7

    • יֶ֝הְגּ֗וּyehguverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they make a sound
  • I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands.

    Psalms 143:5

    • הָגִ֥יתִיhagitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have meditated

Proverbs

three uses
  • For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

    Proverbs 8:7

    • יֶהְגֶּ֣הyehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will utter
  • The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked blurts out evil.

    Proverbs 15:28

    • יֶהְגֶּ֣הyehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it considers
  • for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.

    Proverbs 24:2

    • יֶהְגֶּ֣הyehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it plots

Isaiah

nine uses
  • When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

    Isaiah 8:19

    • וְהַמַּהְגִּ֑יםvehamahgimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and who mutter
  • Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.

    Isaiah 16:7

    • תֶּהְגּ֖וּtehguverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will groan
  • For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.

    Isaiah 31:4

    • יֶהְגֶּה֩yehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it growls
  • Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”

    Isaiah 33:18

    • יֶהְגֶּ֣הyehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will meditate on
  • I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”

    Isaiah 38:14

    • אֶהְגֶּ֖הʾehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I moan
  • For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.

    Isaiah 59:3

    • תֶהְגֶּֽה׃tehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it mutters
  • We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

    Isaiah 59:11

    • הָגֹ֣הhagohverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to moan
    • נֶהְגֶּ֑הnehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we moan
  • rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.

    Isaiah 59:13

    • וְהֹג֛וֹvehogoconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative passive (hophal), infinitive absolutetagged: and we have uttered

Jeremiah

one use
  • Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.

    Jeremiah 48:31

    • יֶהְגֶּֽה׃yehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will groan

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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