H1897 - הָגָה (hâgâh)

H1897 הָגָה (hâgâh) daw-gaw'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

a primitive root (compare 1901); to murmur (in pleasure or anger); by implication, to ponder

KJV Usage: imagine, meditate, mourn, mutter, roar, X sore, speak, study, talk, utter

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

הָגָה (ha.gah) — to mutter. 1) to moan, growl, utter, muse, mutter, meditate, devise, plot, speak 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to roar, growl, groan 1a2) to utter, speak 1a3) to meditate, devise, muse, imagine 1b) (Poal) to utter 1c) (Hiphil) to mutter

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

הגה (H1897 · H1898)

verb · הֶגֶה · הָגוּת · הִגָּיֹון

Location | verb qal

to remove = causative action by which humans causes other humans or objects to be removed from their place,◄ as if by blowing them away

PRO 25:4 · PRO 25:5 · ISA 27:8

Sounds | verb qal, verb hif | ≈ המה · צפף

to produce a sound, to growl, to mutter, to moan = action by which living creatures produce inarticulate sounds

PSA 115:7 · ISA 8:19 · ISA 16:7 · ISA 31:4 · ISA 38:14 · ISA 59:11 · ISA 59:11 · JER 48:31

Speak | verb qal | ≈ שׂיח

to meditate, to rehearse = action by which humans speak softly for themselves as if thinking out loud

JOS 1:8 · PSA 1:2 · PSA 63:7 · PSA 77:13 · PSA 143:5 · PRO 15:28

Speak | verb qal, verb hof | ≈ דבר

to mutter, to speak = action by which humans utter words with the focus on what is said

JOB 27:4 · PSA 2:1 · PSA 35:28 · PSA 37:30 · PSA 38:13 · PSA 71:24 · PRO 8:7 · PRO 24:2 · ISA 33:18 · ISA 59:3 · ISA 59:13

¹ ISA 16:7 NIV "the men" follows LXX (τοις κατοικουσιν) and makes the text cohere with JER 48:31, which has אַנְשֵׁי ("men") instead of the אַשִׁישֵׁי ("raisin cakes")

Enio R. Mueller

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

הָגָה vb. moan, growl, utter, speak, muse (only poet.) Qal of inarticulate sounds growl, of lion growling over prey

groan, moan, in distress (like dove)

utter

of inarticulate sounds (soliloquize) meditate, muse

imagine, devise

Po. a conceiving and an uttering, out of the heart, lying words

Hiph. those that make chirpings and mutterings, of necromancers and wizards

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