לָעַט
laat · gulp down
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3938 · appears 1 time in the Bible
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laat (לָעַט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gulp down”.
Let someone gulp down greedily, feed. It occurs only in Genesis 25:30.
How to say it
la·at
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
- To wolf food hungrily without chewing.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Where it appears
- Genesis 25:30
Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me gulp down some of the red, this red stuff, for I am exhausted.” That is why his name was called Edom.