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# בטא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H981

**speak rashly** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

speak rashly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/981/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּטָה: vb. speak rashly, thoughtlessly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/981/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. speak rashly, thoughtlessly (NH id., בטי)— Pt. בּוֹטֶה Pr 12:18 one that babbleth (opp. לְשׁוֹן חֲכָמִים). Impf. יְבַטֵּא בִשְׁבוּעָה Lv 5:4 speak rashly, unadvisedly; so וַיְבַטֵּא בִּשְׂפָתָיו (of Moses) ψ 106:33; Inf. לְבַטֵּא בִשְׂפָתַיִם Lv 5:4 (P).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[one who\] speaks rashly (1); he spoke rashly (1); he will speak rashly (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 12:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.18/#tree)

יֵ֣שׁ בּ֭וֹטֶהכְּמַדְקְר֣וֹת חָ֑רֶב וּלְשׁ֖וֹן חֲכָמִ֣ים מַרְפֵּֽא׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\] \[one.who\].speaks.rashly like thrusts of.a.sword and.\[the\] tongue of.wise.\[people\] \[is\].healing

*JPS 1917:* There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.

[Psalms 106:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.33/#tree)

כִּֽי־הִמְר֥וּ אֶת־רוּח֑וֹ וַ֝יְבַטֵּ֗א בִּשְׂפָתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they.rebelled.toward (et) spirit his and he.spoke.rashly with lips his

*JPS 1917:* For they embittered his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/981.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/981/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).