לוּעַ lûwaʻ — to gulp

pronounced loo'-ah · Strong's H3886 · 2 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as swallow down.

a primitive root; to gulp; figuratively, to be rash.

lûwaʻ in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 2×

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

Perfect (qatal) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1

לָֽעוּ Job 6:3 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. (KJV)

וְלָע֔וּ Obad 1:16 Sequential perfect (weqatal), 3rd person common plural

For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. (KJV)

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 ›

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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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