לָעַז lâʻaz — to speak in a foreign tongue
Translated in the KJV as strange language.
a primitive root; to speak in a foreign tongue.
lâʻaz in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
לֹעֵֽז Ps 114:1 Participle (active), masculine singular
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
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 ›