To MURMUR, mutter, growl — a concrete sound-word, not the abstraction 'meditate' most versions reach for. It is the low noise a lion makes over its prey (Isaiah 31:4), the moan of a dove, the muttering of a person turning something over. Applied to a scroll it means reading ALOUD UNDER THE BREATH, the ancient way of studying by voicing a text continually rather than scanning it in silence. Joshua 1:8 charges Joshua to HAGAH over the book of the instruction 'day and night,' and Psalm 1:2 uses the exact same verb of the blessed man — the two great 'day and night in the torah' texts, one opening the Prophets, one opening the Writings. KJV 'thou shalt meditate therein'; NWT 'you must read it in an undertone,' which keeps the voice. → first discussed at Joshua 1:8