ἐρεύγομαι
[in LXX chiefly for שָׁאַג, Ho 11:10, Am 3:4, 8 al.; also for נָבַע, Ps 18 (19):2, etc.;]
1. to spit or spue out.
2. Prop., of oxen (Hom.), to bellow, roar; whence, as in LXX, to speak aloud, utter: Mt 13:35(LXX). (For other examples of softened force of words in late Gk., cf. σκύλλω, τρώγω, χορτάζω.) †