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# לֹעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3930

**throat** — 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

throat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3930/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לֹעַ: throat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3930/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] prob. throat (external) (cf. NH לוֹעַ jaw, cheek, Aramaic לוֹעָא, ܠܘܥܐ id.);—וְשַׂמְתָּ֫ שַכִּין בְּלֹעֶ֑ךָ Pr 23:2 and thou shalt put a knife to thy throat (fig. for restraining oneself from indulgence in food).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: throat (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 23:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.2/#tree)

וְשַׂמְתָּ֣ שַׂכִּ֣ין בְּלֹעֶ֑ךָ אִם־בַּ֖עַל נֶ֣פֶשׁ אָֽתָּה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.put a.knife in throat your if \[are\].a.master of.appetite you

*JPS 1917:* And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3930.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3930/): 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).