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לוּעַ

lu.a

to swallow

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Strong’s H3886aVerb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

they will swallow1

In the text

Obadiah 1:16וְלָעוּ
For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[לוּעַ, or לָעַע] vb. swallow, swallow down

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.