To mumble
לָעַזStrong’s H3937laaz (la-az)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Laaz is the Hebrew word usually translated “speaking a foreign language”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;”
Meaning
- (Qal) to speak indistinctly, speak unintelligibly
How it's translated
- speaking a foreign language 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
לָעַז laaz · to mumble
(Qal) to speak indistinctly, speak unintelligibly
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mumble” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MUM'BLE, verb intransitive
- To mutter; to speak with the lips or other organs partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words with a grumbling tone.
- To chew or bite softly; to eat with the lips close.
All definitions and other forms of “mumble”
MUM'BLE, verb transitive
To utter with a low inarticulate voice.
- To mouth gently, or to eat with a muttering sound.
- To suppress or utter imperfectly.
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.