a.taq describes proud, elevated speech spoken in defiance or self-boasting.

The clearly displayed adjectival use describes elevated, self-exalting speech: it is forbidden from the mouth in 1 Samuel 2:3 and spoken by boastful workers of wickedness in Psalm 94:4. The noun-tagged occurrences in Psalm 31:19 and Psalm 75:6 do not allow the term’s specific contribution to be isolated from the translation.

1. Proud, self-exalting speech · dominant

   In 1 Samuel 2:3, the masculine singular absolute form occurs in the prohibition against speech coming from the mouth; the APB renders the clause, “let arrogant speech not come forth from your mouth.” In Psalm 94:4, the same adjectival morphology occurs with speaking and boasting by workers of wickedness; the APB renders, “They bubble forth; they speak arrogant things; all workers of wickedness boast.”

   1 Samuel 2:3Psalm 94:4

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly presents the adjectival contexts as “arrogant speech” in 1 Samuel 2:3 and “arrogant things” in Psalm 94:4. In Psalm 31:19 and Psalm 75:6, its wording about goodness and exaltation does not identify a one-to-one rendering for this lemma.