To blurt
יָלַעStrong’s H3216yala (ya-la)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yala is the Hebrew word usually translated “may say rashly”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to speak rashly, talk wildly(TWOT) to swallow, swallow down
How it's translated
- he may say rashly 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
יָלַע yala · to blurt
1) (Qal) to speak rashly, talk wildly 1a) (TWOT) to swallow, swallow down
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “blurt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BLURT, verb transitive
[Allied probably to flirt, to throw.]
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.