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# עִלֵּג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5926

**speaking inarticulately** — 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

speaking inarticulately [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5926/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִלֵּג: adj. speaking inarticulately [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5926/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. speaking inarticulately;—pl. לְשׁוֹן עִלְּגִים Is 32:4 (𝔊 ψελλίζουσαι; Lagl.c.).

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 (2 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: of stammerers (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 32:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.4/#tree)

וּלְבַ֥ב נִמְהָרִ֖ים יָבִ֣ין לָדָ֑עַת וּלְשׁ֣וֹן עִלְּגִ֔ים תְּמַהֵ֖ר לְדַבֵּ֥ר צָחֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] heart of.hasty.\[people\] it.will.understand to know and.\[the\] tongue of.stammerers it.will.hasten to speak clear.\[words\]

*JPS 1917:* The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5926.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5926/): 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).