To mutter
הָגָהStrong’s H1897hagah (ha-gah)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Hagah is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will utter”, “meditate” and “meditates”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- To moan, growl, utter, muse, mutter, meditate, devise, plot, speak(Qal) · (Poal) to utter · (Hiphil) to mutter
How it's translated
- it will utter 4
- and you will meditate 1
- he meditates 1
- do they devise 1
- it utters 1
- they devise 1
- i meditate 1
- and i will meditate 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 10
- Isaiah 8
- Proverbs 3
- Joshua 1
- Job 1
- Jeremiah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 27:4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
- Psalms 1:2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
- Psalms 2:1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
- Psalms 35:28And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
- Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
- Psalms 38:12They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Hebrew dictionary
הָגָה hagah · to mutter
1) to moan, growl, utter, muse, mutter, meditate, devise, plot, speak 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to roar, growl, groan 1a2) to utter, speak 1a3) to meditate, devise, muse, imagine 1b) (Poal) to utter 1c) (Hiphil) to mutter
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mutter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MUT'TER, verb intransitive
[Latin mutio, muttio, and musso, mussito; allied perhaps to muse, which see.]
- To utter words with a low voice and compressed lips, with sullenness or in complaint; to grumble; to murmur.
- To sound with a low rumbling noise.
All definitions and other forms of “mutter”
MUT'TER, verb transitive
To utter with imperfect articulations, or with a low murmuring voice.
- “Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness” Isaiah 59:3
MUT'TER, noun
Murmur; obscure utterance.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.