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# לָעַז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3937

**talk indistinctly** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

talk indistinctly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3937/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָעַז: vb. talk indistinctly, unintelligibly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3937/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. talk indistinctly, unintelligibly (NH id., in deriv. (לַעַז foreign language, לָעוּז foreigner), also murmur, remonstrate; Syriac ܠܥܶܙ talk indistinctly; Arabic لَغَزَ distort; iv. talk obscurely, ambiguously);—only Pt. עַם לֹעֵז ψ 114:1 a people talking unintelligibly (‖ מִצְרַיִם).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[who\] spoke a foreign language (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 114:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.1/#tree)

בְּצֵ֣את יִ֭שְׂרָאֵל מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם בֵּ֥ית יַ֝עֲקֹ֗ב מֵעַ֥ם לֹעֵֽז׃

*Word for word:* when went.out Israel from Egypt the.house of.Jacob from a.people \[who\].spoke.a.foreign.language

*JPS 1917:* When Israel came forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3937.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3937/): 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).