Hebrew verb · H981
בָּטָא
batabaw-taw'
to speak rashly
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bâṭâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H981is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H981
to babble; hence, to vociferate angrily
The King James renders it: pronounce, speak (unadvisedly).
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
bata is rendered "to speak rashly". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 5:4Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil—in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty in the matter.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil—in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty in the matter.
Leviticus 5:4לְבַטֵּ֨א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he spoke rashly1
- by speaking rashly1
- he will speak rashly1
- speaks rashly1
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- בּ֭וֹטֶה1
- וַ֝יְבַטֵּ֗א1
- יְבַטֵּ֧א1
- לְבַטֵּ֨א1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vpw3ms1Hc/Vpw3ms
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vpcc
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
Leviticus
two uses
Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil—in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty in the matter.
- לְבַטֵּ֨אlevate'preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by speaking rashly
- יְבַטֵּ֧אyevate'verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will speak rashly
Psalms
one use
For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.
- וַ֝יְבַטֵּ֗אvayvate'Hc/Vpw3mstagged: and he spoke rashly
Proverbs
one use
Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
- בּ֭וֹטֶהbotehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: speaks rashly
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 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.