לוּעַ lûwaʻ — to gulp
Translated in the KJV as swallow down.
a primitive root; to gulp; figuratively, to be rash.
lûwaʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
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.
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.
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 ›