הָגָה hâgâh — to murmur (in pleasure or anger)
Translated in the KJV as imagine, meditate, mourn, mutter, roar, × sore, speak, study, talk, utter.
a primitive root (compare H1901); to murmur (in pleasure or anger); by implication, to ponder.
hâgâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 19Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Perfect (qatal) 1Infinitive absolute 1
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Hiph'il
Participle (active) 1
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
Po'el
Infinitive absolute 1
In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›