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title: בטא — speak rashly · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בטא (981), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: speak rashly. BDB 1906: vb. speak rashly, thoughtlessly. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בטא

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«בטא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **speak rashly** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 981 · **BDB:** בָּטָה

### Glosses

\[one.who\].speaks.rashly (1); he.spoke.rashly (1); he.will.speak.rashly (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

speak rashly [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/981/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. speak rashly, thoughtlessly [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/981/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. speak rashly, thoughtlessly (NH id., בטי)— Pt. בּוֹטֶה Pr 12:18 one that babbleth (opp. לְשׁוֹן חֲכָמִים). Impf. יְבַטֵּא בִשְׁבוּעָה Lv 5:4 speak rashly, unadvisedly; so וַיְבַטֵּא בִּשְׂפָתָיו (of Moses) ψ 106:33; Inf. לְבַטֵּא בִשְׂפָתַיִם Lv 5:4 (P).

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בטא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/981/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 12:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.18/)

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יֵ֣שׁ בּ֭וֹטֶהכְּמַדְקְר֣וֹת חָ֑רֶב וּלְשׁ֖וֹן חֲכָמִ֣ים מַרְפֵּֽא׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\] \[one.who\].speaks.rashly like thrusts of.a.sword and.\[the\] tongue of.wise.\[people\] \[is\].healing

*JPS 1917:* There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.

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[Psalms 106:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.33/)

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כִּֽי־הִמְר֥וּ אֶת־רוּח֑וֹ וַ֝יְבַטֵּ֗א בִּשְׂפָתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they.rebelled.toward (et) spirit his and he.spoke.rashly with lips his

*JPS 1917:* For they embittered his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.

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