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Hebrew · Strong's H981

בָּטָא

batabaw-taw'

to babble

1890 spelling: bâṭâʼ

Strong's Dictionary · 1890

to babble; hence, to vociferate angrily

Rendered in the KJV as

pronounce, speak (unadvisedly).

  • 4
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 3 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 4
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 4 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 4

  • בּ֭וֹטֶה1
  • וַ֝יְבַטֵּ֗א1
  • יְבַטֵּ֧א1
  • לְבַטֵּ֨א1

How it is rendered · 4

  • [is one who] speaks rashly1
  • and he spoke rashly1
  • by speaking rashly1
  • he will speak rashly1

The sense the word carries at each spot: how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 4

  • Hc/Vpw3ms1
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1
  • verb · intensive (piel), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular1
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • Hc/Vpw3ms · 1
  • HR/Vpcc · 1
  • HVpi3ms · 1
  • HVqrmsa · 1

All 4, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Leviticus carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0: their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).