Batah בָּטָה

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Batah (Hebrew בָּטָה, Strong's H981) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to speak rashly”. It occurs 4 times in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to speak rashly or angrily, speak thoughtlessly
1a) (Qal) one that babbles, speaks rashly (part.)
1b) (Piel) to speak rashly, unadvisedly

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	pronouncing (1), pronounce (1), unadvisedly (1), speaketh (1)
BSB	thoughtlessly (1), may rashly pronounce (1), speaking rashly (1)

Every verse with Batah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Leviticus 5:4
Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil—in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty in the matter.

Psalm 106:33
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).