לֹעַ
lôaʻ · H3930 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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throat
The front part of the neck
ExamplesProverbs 23:2 And put a knife to your throat If you are a person of great appetite.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָyour 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- גָּרוֹן gârôwn · H1627 · throat, neck
- Hebrew term for throat/neck as an anatomical feature, semantically overlapping with לֹעַ as designation for the throat area, though גָּרוֹן is more common and can extend to external neck.
In the other Testament 1 word
- λάρυγξ lárynx · G2995 · throat
- Greek anatomical term for throat, the direct translation equivalent used in LXX and NT contexts for the same body part.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- People001001003
- לֹעַ denotes the throat, as in Proverbs 23:2's warning to "put a knife to your throat if you are a person of great appetite," placing the word among terms for parts of the human body.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3930. loa [לֹעַ] noun [masculine] probably throat> (external) (compare Late Hebrew לוֺעַ…
[לֹעַ] noun [masculine] probably throat> (external) (compare Late Hebrew לוֺעַ jaw, cheek, Aramaic לוֺעָא, id.); — בְּלֹעֶ֑ךָ שַׂכִּין וְשַׂמְתָּ֫ Pro 23:2 and thou shalt put a knife to thy throat (figurative for restraining oneself from indulgence in food).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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