Strong's Lexicon

H3937

H3937 — לָעַז

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewla`azverb-stemOccurrences: 1TWOT: 1119

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H3937
Word:לָעַז
Part of Speech:verb-stem
Etymology:a primitive root
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:1
Transliteration:la`az
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:law-az'
Meaning:1. to speak in a foreign tongue
KJV Renderings:strange language.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB4440

[לָעַז] verb talk indistinctly, unintelligibly (Late Hebrew id., in derivatives ( לַעַז foreign language, לָעוּז foreigner), also murmur, remonstrate; Syriac [untranscribed source text 2841] talk indistinctly; Arabic [untranscribed source text 2842] distort; IV. talk obscurely, ambiguously); — only

Qal Participle עַם לֹעֵז Ps 114:1 a people talking unintelligibly (|| מִצְרַיִם).


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

לעז (lah-gaz’)

Psalms 114:1

KJV: When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
EHCC: from a people of strange language ;
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