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# לעע

Biblical Hebrew

**\[one.who\].he.will.say.rashly** — used 3 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

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[one who\] he will say rashly (1); they have been rash (1); they will swallow (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 20:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.25/#tree)

מוֹקֵ֣שׁ אָ֭דָם יָ֣לַע קֹ֑דֶשׁ וְאַחַ֖ר נְדָרִ֣ים לְבַקֵּֽר׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.snare of.a.person \[one.who\].he.will.say.rashly holiness and after \[the\].vows to consider

*JPS 1917:* It is a snare to a man rashly to say: 'Holy', and after vows to make inquiry.

[Job 6:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.3/#tree)

כִּֽי־עַתָּ֗ה מֵח֣וֹל יַמִּ֣ים יִכְבָּ֑ד עַל־כֵּ֝֗ן דְּבָרַ֥י לָֽעוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) now more than.\[the\].sand of.\[the\].seas it.will.be.heavy therefore words my they.have.been.rash

*JPS 1917:* For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore are my words broken.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5e2_5e2.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5e2_5e2/): 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).