לָעַז
lâʻaz · H3937 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to speak a foreign language
Action by which humans speak a language that is unknown and therefore not understood
ExamplesPsalm 114:1 When Israel went forth from Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of a foreign language,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- לָשׁוֹן lâshôwn · H3956 · tongue, snake charmer
- While לָשׁוֹן is the general term for 'tongue/language,' it can be used specifically for foreign languages (e.g., 'tongue you do not understand' in Deut 28:49, Isa 28:11), overlapping with לָעַז's semantic space of strange speech
In the other Testament 2 words
- βάρβαρος bárbaros · G915 · non-Greek, native people, uncivilized
- Greek term for someone speaking a foreign/unintelligible language, directly parallel to the Hebrew לָעַז which denotes strange or foreign speech
- ἑτερόγλωσσος heteróglōssos · G2084 · speaking in a strange language, in a strange language
- Greek compound meaning 'of another tongue,' used in LXX contexts for foreign languages, matches the semantic field of strange/foreign speech
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Speak002004001009008
- לָעַז describes speaking in a strange or foreign language, as in Psalm 114:1's "when Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language," placing it among terms for speech.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3937. laaz [לָעַז] verb talk indistinctly, unintelligibly (Late Hebrew id., in…
[לָעַז] verb talk indistinctly, unintelligibly (Late Hebrew id., in derivatives (לַעַז foreign language, לָעוּז foreigner), also murmur, remonstrate; Syriac talk indistinctly; Arabic distort; IV. talk obscurely, ambiguously); — only
Qal Participle לֹעֵז עַם Psa 114:1 a people talking unintelligibly (|| מִצְרַיִם).
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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