HebrewH3886Verb
לוּעַ
lu.a
“to swallow”
2Occurrences
H3886Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
to gulp; figuratively, to be rash
a primitive root;
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
(Qal) to swallow, swallow down
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Verb
Morphology Code
H:V
Full Description
Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
לוּעַ appears 2 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Job
1
Obadiah
1
Key Passages
Job 6:3BSB
For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my words have been rash.
Obadiah 1:16BSB
For as you drank on My holy mountain,so all the nations will drink continually.They will drink and gulp it down;they will be as if they had never existed.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.