# H1897 הָגָה

הָגָה (hâgâh), Strong’s H1897: to murmur (in pleasure or anger); by implication, to ponder KJV: imagine, meditate, mourn, mutter, roar, [idiom] sore, speak, study, talk, utter.. Occurs 25 times.

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

KJV: imagine, meditate, mourn, mutter, roar, [idiom] sore, speak, study, talk, utter.

Occurs 25 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- הָגָה vb. moan, growl, utter, speak, muse (only poet.)
- Qal
- 1 of inarticulate sounds
- a growl, of lion growling over prey
- b groan, moan, in distress (like dove)
- 2 utter
- 3 of inarticulate sounds
- a (soliloquize) meditate, muse
- b imagine, devise
- Po. a conceiving and an uttering, out of the heart, lying words
- Hiph. those that make chirpings and mutterings, of necromancers and wizards

## Where it occurs
- [Joshua 1:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/1?v=8) — This scroll of the Torah shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may…
- [Isaiah 8:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/8?v=19) — When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,”…
- [Isaiah 16:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/16?v=7) — Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly…
- [Isaiah 31:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/31?v=4) — For the LORD says to me, “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called…
- [Isaiah 33:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/33?v=18) — Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the…
- [Isaiah 38:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/38?v=14) — I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my…
- [Isaiah 59:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/59?v=3) — For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters…
- [Isaiah 59:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/59?v=11) — We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far…
- [Isaiah 59:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/59?v=13) — transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving…
- [Jeremiah 48:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/48?v=31) — Therefore I will wail for Moab. Yes, I will cry out for all Moab. They will mourn for the men of Kir Heres.