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לָעַט

la.at

to eat

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Strong’s H3938Verb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

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Translated as

let swallow1

In the text

Genesis 25:30הַלְעִיטֵנִי
He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[לָעַט] vb. swallow (greedily);—only Hiph. Gn 25:30 (J)

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.