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Strong's #1572: gama' (pronounced gaw-maw')

a primitive root (literally or figuratively) to absorb:--swallow, drink.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gâmâ'

1) to swallow (liquids)

1a) (Piel) to swallow

1b) (Hiphil) to drink

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

Genesis 24:17: "to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher."
Job 39:24: " He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither he that it is the sound"









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