Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
v.) To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter.
2. (v.) To chew something gently with closed lips.
3. (v. t.) To utter with a low, inarticulate voice.
4. (v. t.) To chew or bite gently, as one without teeth.
5. (v. t.) To suppress, or utter imperfectly.
Strong's Hebrew
3907. lachash -- to whisper, charm... charmer, whisper together. A primitive root; to whisper; by implication, to
mumble a spell (as a magician) -- charmer, whisper (together). 3906, 3907.
... /hebrew/3907.htm - 6k 178. ob -- a bottle (made from animal skin), a necromancer
... From the same as 'ab (apparently through the idea of prattling a father's name);
properly, a mumble, ie A water skin (from its hollow sound); hence a ...
/hebrew/178.htm - 6k
Library
Prayer and Desire
... Desire is silent. Prayer is heard; desire, unheard. The deeper the desire, the stronger
the prayer. Without desire, prayer is a meaningless mumble of words. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/bounds/the necessity of prayer/iv prayer and desire.htm
The Hermit and the Boy
... As a youth he had been accustomed to the trimming attitude of mind which made the
old Bishop Leontius mumble the Gloria in such a way that no party could claim ...
/.../chapter v the hermit and.htm
Prayer and the House of God
... To read the Word of God distinctly " to read it so that the people could hear and
understand the words read; not to mumble out the words, nor read it in an ...
/.../bounds/the necessity of prayer/xiv prayer and the house.htm
St. Athanasius,
... Leontius, then, who was an Arian, and yet did not wish people to know exactly what
he was, used to mumble his words, so that nobody could make them out, until ...
/.../chapter xii st athanasius.htm
Preach the Gospel
... heart. This I take it, is to preach the gospel, and not to mumble some
dry manuscript over on Sunday morning or Sunday evening. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/preach the gospel.htm
Literary Expressions
... Morn, in yellow and white, came broadening out of the mountains. Mumble only
jargon of dotage. My body is too frail for its moods. N. ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section vii literary expressions.htm
Eccles. 12:12 Simplicity in Preaching.
... If you bury your head in your bosom, and mumble over your manuscript in a dull,
monotonous, droning way, like a bee in a bottle, so that people cannot ...
/.../chapter iii eccles 12 12 simplicity.htm
The 'education Question' in Trinidad
... the upper powers by hanging garlands on a trident inside a hut, or putting red dust
on a stump of wood outside it, while they stare in and mumble prayers to ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter xiv the education question.htm
The Tabernacle of the Most High
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 5: 1859. <. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/the tabernacle of the most.htm
English Version of the Second Helvetic Confession, AD 1566.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. <. ...
/.../english version of the second.htm
Thesaurus
Mumble (1 Occurrence)... 5. (vt) To suppress, or utter imperfectly. Multi-Version Concordance
Mumble (1 Occurrence).
... Your speech will
mumble out of the dust.
.../m/mumble.htm - 7kWhisper (9 Occurrences)
... (Root in DBY YLT NAS NIV). Isaiah 29:4 You will be brought down, and will speak
out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. ...
/w/whisper.htm - 10k
Munificence (1 Occurrence)
/m/munificence.htm - 6k
Multitudes (72 Occurrences)
/m/multitudes.htm - 26k
Familiar (35 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT). Isaiah 29:4 You will be brought down, and will speak
out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. ...
/f/familiar.htm - 22k
Speech (107 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV). Isaiah 29:4 You will be brought down, and will speak
out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. ...
/s/speech.htm - 36k
Bible Concordance
Mumble (1 Occurrence)Isaiah 29:4 You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.
(WEB NIV)
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