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title: לָעַט — swallow · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לָעַט (3938), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: swallow. BDB 1906: vb. swallow (greedily). With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לָעַט

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«לָעַט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **swallow** — 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:** 3938 · **BDB:** לָעַט

### Glosses

let (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

swallow [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3938/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. swallow (greedily) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3938/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. swallow (greedily) (NH id., Hiph. stuff cattle with food; Syriac ܠܘܽܥܳܛܳܐ jaw; cf. Arabic لَغَطَ speak confusedly, utter indistinct sounds);—only Imv. ms. sf. causat. הַלְעִיטֵנִי Gn 25:30 (J) let me swallow, sq. מִן rei.

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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, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לָעַט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3938/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 25:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.30/)

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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר עֵשָׂ֜ו אֶֽל־יַעֲקֹ֗ב הַלְעִיטֵ֤נִי נָא֙ מִן־הָאָדֹ֤ם הָאָדֹם֙ הַזֶּ֔ה כִּ֥י עָיֵ֖ף אָנֹ֑כִי עַל־כֵּ֥ן קָרָֽא־שְׁמ֖וֹ אֱדֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Esau to Jacob let me.swallow please some.of the.red \[stew\] the.red \[stew\] (the) this (dm) \[am\].exhausted I therefore someone.called name his Edom

*JPS 1917:* And Esau said to Jacob: 'Let me swallow, I pray thee, some of this red, red pottage; for I am faint.' Therefore was his name called Edom.

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