לוּעַ
lua · speak rashly, swallow
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3886 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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lua (לוּעַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “speak rashly, swallow”.
To gulp down; figuratively, to speak without weighing one's words, rashly.
How to say it
lu·a
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 gulp at once, without stopping.
- To speak without weighing one's words.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- have been rash ×1
- swallow down ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 6:3
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words have been rash.
- Obadiah 1:16
For as you drank on my holy mountain, all the nations will drink continually; they will drink and swallow down and will be as though they had not been.