Definition

to murmur (in pleasure or anger); by implication, to ponder

Etymology

a primitive root (compare H1901 (הָגִיג));

Where the KJV renders it

• imagine
• meditate
• mourn
• mutter
• roar
• sore
• speak
• study
• talk
• utter

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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