Heavy of mouth and heavy of tongue/ stammerer/ tongue-tied/ slow of speech (כְבַד פֶּה וּכְבַד לָשׁוֹן)

Heavy of mouth and heavy of tongue/ stammerer/ tongue-tied/ slow of speech

Stammering; unable to express oneself clearly.

("And Moses said to the LORD, 'Please, my Lord, I am not a man of words, neither from yesterday nor from the day before yesterday... for I am heavy of mouth and heavy of tongue'" - Exodus 4:10 (Moses to the LORD), and likewise: "I thought... like our own Heikel, heavy of mouth" - Mendele Mocher Sforim, The Travels of Benjamin the Third.)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

כְבַד פֶּה וּכְבַד לָשׁוֹן

Definition (Hebrew)

מְגַמְגֵּם. אֵינוֹ יוֹדֵעַ לְהִתְבַּטֵּא.

("וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה אֶל ה' בִּי אֲדֹנָי לֹא אִישׁ דְּבָרִים אָנֹכִי גַּם מִתְּמוֹל גַּם מִשִּׁלְשֹׁם... כִּי כְבַד פֶּה וּכְבַד לָשׁוֹן אָנֹכִי"- שְׁמוֹת ד י ( מֹשֶׁה אֶל ה' ), וְכֵן:"סָבוּר הָיִיתִי,מִי בַּעַל צוּרָה...כְּמוֹ חַיְקֶל כְּבַד הַפֶּה שֶׁלָּנוּ"-מֶנְדֵּלֵי מו"ס/ מַסְּעוֹת בִּנְיָמִין הַשְּׁלִישִׁי, יָא)

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