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title: לָעַז — talk indistinctly · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לָעַז (3937), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: talk indistinctly. BDB 1906: vb. talk indistinctly, unintelligibly. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לָעַז

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«לָעַז» in the Tanakh dictionary: **talk indistinctly** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3937 · **BDB:** לָעַז

### Glosses

\[who\].spoke.a.foreign.language (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

talk indistinctly [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3937/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. talk indistinctly, unintelligibly [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3937/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. talk indistinctly, unintelligibly (NH id., in deriv. (לַעַז foreign language, לָעוּז foreigner), also murmur, remonstrate; Syriac ܠܥܶܙ talk indistinctly; Arabic لَغَزَ distort; iv. talk obscurely, ambiguously);—only Pt. עַם לֹעֵז ψ 114:1 a people talking unintelligibly (‖ מִצְרַיִם).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לָעַז» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3937/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 114:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.1/)

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בְּצֵ֣את יִ֭שְׂרָאֵל מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם בֵּ֥ית יַ֝עֲקֹ֗ב מֵעַ֥ם לֹעֵֽז׃

*Word for word:* when went.out Israel from Egypt the.house of.Jacob from a.people \[who\].spoke.a.foreign.language

*JPS 1917:* When Israel came forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

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