Quick Definition
to suck
Strong's Definition
to sip up
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: suck up.
TWOT Reference: 1633
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) to suck up (meaning uncertain)
1a) (Piel) to drink
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עָלַע (a.la) — to suck. 1) to suck up (meaning uncertain) 1a) (Piel) to drink
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Ingest | verb pi
to gulp = action by which animals ingest liquids quickly and large mouthfuls
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[עָלַע] vb. assumed as √ of Pi. Jb 39:30 they drink (?) blood ref