To eat
לָעַטStrong’s H3938laat (la-at)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Laat is the Hebrew word usually translated “let swallow me”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.”
Meaning
- (Hiphil) to swallow greedily, devour
How it's translated
- let swallow me 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
לָעַט laat · to eat
(Hiphil) to swallow greedily, devour
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “eat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EAT, verb transitive
preterit tense ate; participle passive eat or eaten. [Latin edo, esse, esum.]
- To bite or chew and swallow, as food.“They shall make thee to eat grass as oxen” Daniel 4:25
- To corrode; to wear away; to separate parts of a thing gradually, as an animal by gnawing.
- To consume; to waste.“When goods increase, they are increased that eat them” Ecclesiastes 5:11
- To enjoy.“If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land” Isaiah 1:19
All definitions and other forms of “eat”
- To consume; to oppress.“Who eat up my people as they eat bread” Psalms 14:4
- To feast.
EAT, verb intransitive
To take food; to feed; to take a meal, or to board.
- “Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners” Matthew 9:11
- To take food; to be maintained in food.“Their word will eat as doth a canker” 2 Timothy 2:17
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.