haga · meditate, murmur

What it means

haga (הָגָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “meditate, murmur”.

Meditate: repeat something in a low voice, turn it over again and again. The same word is used for the murmur of someone reading to himself.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To make a low sound, like a dove or a lion.
2. To say something softly.
3. To think over something again and again, like YHWH's law.
4. To plot evil.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• meditate ×4
• meditates ×3
• will meditate on ×3
• I meditate ×2
• utter ×2
• we keep moaning ×2
• I moaned ×1
• growls ×1
• mutter ×1
• muttering ×1
• others ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Joshua×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×10
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×9
• Jeremiah×1

• Joshua 1:8

  This book of the instruction shall not depart from your mouth, and you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosper, and then you will act wisely.

• Job 27:4

  my lips will not speak injustice, nor will my tongue utter deceit.

• Psalms 1:2

  but in the instruction of YHWH is his delight, and on his instruction he meditates by day and night.

• Psalms 2:1

  Why are the nations in turmoil, and the peoples meditate a vain thing?

• Psalms 35:28

  And my tongue will meditate on your righteousness, all the day your praise.

• Psalms 37:30

  The mouth of the righteous meditates wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

• Psalms 38:12

  Those who seek my soul lay snares, and those who strive for my harm speak calamities, and deceits they meditate all the day.

• Psalms 63:6

  when I remember you upon my bed, in the watches I meditate on you;

• Psalms 71:24

  My tongue also all the day will meditate on your righteousness, for they have been put to shame, for they have been abashed, those who seek my harm.

• Psalms 77:12

  And I will meditate on all your work, and on your deeds I will reflect.

• Psalms 115:7

  their hands, but they do not feel; their feet, but they do not walk; they make no sound in their throat.

• Psalms 143:5

  I remember the days of old; I meditate on all your deeds; on the work of your hands I reflect.

• Proverbs 8:7

  For my palate will utter truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

• Proverbs 15:28

  The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

• Proverbs 24:2

  for their heart meditates devastation, and their lips speak trouble.

• Isaiah 8:19

  And when they say to you, “Consult those who call up the dead and the spiritists, who chirp and mutter,” should not a people consult its Elohim? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

• Isaiah 16:7

  Therefore Moab will wail for Moab, all of it will wail; for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth you will murmur, utterly stricken.

• Isaiah 31:4

  For thus YHWH said to me: “As the lion growls, and the young lion, over its prey, when a full band of shepherds is called out against it, at their voice it is not terrified, and at their tumult it is not abashed, so YHWH Tsevaot will come down to wage war upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.

• Isaiah 33:18

  Your heart will meditate on the terror: “Where is the one who counted? Where is the one who weighed? Where is the one who counted the towers?”

• Isaiah 38:14

  Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirped; I moaned like the dove; my eyes grew weak looking on high. Adonai, oppression is on me; be surety for me.

• Isaiah 59:3

  For your palms are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken falsehood; your tongue mutters injustice.

• Isaiah 59:11

  We growl like bears, all of us, and like doves we keep moaning; we wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

• Isaiah 59:13

  transgressing and denying YHWH, and turning away from following our Elohim, speaking oppression and rebellion, conceiving and muttering from the heart words of falsehood.

• Jeremiah 48:31

  Therefore over Moab I will wail, and for Moab, all of it, I will cry out; for the men of Kir-heres one moans.

And 1 more times.