לָעַט
lâʻaṭ · H3938 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to let gulp down
Causative action by which humans allow other humans to ingest food in a large quantity
ExamplesGenesis 25:30 and Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me have a mouthful of that red stuff there, for I am exhausted.” Therefore he was called Edom by name.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נִיme 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom+ אָדֹםred 1
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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Ingest002001001025
- לָעַט means to feed or gulp down food, as in Genesis 25:30's Esau demanding "let me have a swallow of that red stuff," placing it among terms of eating or consuming.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3938. laat [לָעַט] verb swallow (greedily) (Late Hebrew id., Hiph`il stuff cattle with…
[לָעַט] verb swallow (greedily) (Late Hebrew id., Hiph`il stuff cattle with food; Syriac jaw; compare Arabic speak confusedly, utter indistinct sounds); — only
Hiph`il Imperative masculine singular suffix causat, הַלְעִיטֵנִי Gen 25:30 (J) let me swallow, followed by מִן of thing.
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
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