Strong’s H1572 · Hebrew
גָּמָא
gâmâʼ · gaw-maw'
Origin a primitive root (literally or figuratively) to absorb
Meaning to absorb
In the King James Version swallow, drink.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 24:17And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
- Job 39:24He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.