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גָּעָה gâʻâh — to bellow (as cattle)

pronounced gaw-aw' · Strong's H1600 · 2 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as low.

a primitive root; to bellow (as cattle).

gâʻâh in each stem

Qal (Pa'al)

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Infinitive absolute 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1

וְגָע֔וֹ 1Sam 6:12 Infinitive absolute

And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth–shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth–shemesh. (KJV)

יִגְעֶה Job 6:5 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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