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יָלַע

ya.la

to blurt

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Strong’s H3216Verb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

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Translated as

he may say rashly1

In the text

Proverbs 20:25יָלַע
It is a trap for a man to dedicate something rashly, only later to reconsider his vows.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[לוּע, or לָעַע] vb. talk wildly

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.