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 39Old Testament books
- 20spellings
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
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הָגָה | hagah | to remove | Uses3 |
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.
- וְהָגִ֤יתָvehagitaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will meditate
Job
one use
my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
- 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.
- יֶהְגֶּ֗הyehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he meditates
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- וְהָגִ֥יתִיvehagitiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will meditate
they have hands, but cannot feel; they have feet, but cannot walk; they cannot even clear their throats.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- יֶהְגֶּ֣הyehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it considers
for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?”
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- יֶהְגֶּֽה׃yehgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will groan
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.
