Hebrew verb · H3886
לוּעַ
lualoo'-ah
to swallow; to talk wildly
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lûwaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3886is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3886
to gulp; figuratively, to be rash
The King James renders it: swallow down (up).
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
lua is rendered "to swallow; to talk wildly". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to swallow".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 6:3For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my words have been rash.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my words have been rash.
Job 6:3לָֽעוּ׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to swallow, and to talk wildly.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to swallowStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereJob 6:3For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my words have been rash. |
| to talk wildlyStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and they will swallow1
- they have been rash1
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.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- וְלָע֔וּ1
- לָֽעוּ׃1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqq3cp1Hc/Vqq3cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
Job
one use
For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my words have been rash.
- לָֽעוּ׃lauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been rash
Obadiah
one use
For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.
- וְלָע֔וּvelauHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will swallow
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.