Strong's G1100 γλῶσσα (glossa)

From these were the islands of the Gentiles divided in their land, each according to his tongue, in their tribes and in their nations.

These were the sons of Ham in their tribes according to their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

These were the sons of Shem in their tribes, according to their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.

But among all the children of Israel shall not a dog snarl with his tongue, either at man or beast; that thou mayest know how wide a distinction the Lord will make between the Egyptians and Israel.

I saw in the spoil an embroidered mantle, and two hundred didrachmas of silver, and one golden wedge of fifty didrachmas, and I desired them and took them; and, behold, they are hidden in my tent, and the silver is hidden under them.

And all the people returned safe to Joshua to Makkedah; and no one of the children of Israel murmured with his tongue.

And he brought the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, Whosoever shall lap of the water with his tongue as if a dog should lap, thou shalt set him apart, and also whosoever shall bow down upon his knees to drink.

The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, And his word was upon my tongue.

He shall hide thee from the scourge of the tongue: And thou shalt not be afraid of coming evils.

For there is no injustice in my tongue; And does not my throat meditate understanding?

Though evil be sweet in his mouth, Though he will hide it under his tongue;

And let him suck the poison of serpents, And let the serpent’s tongue slay him.

And they that heard me blessed me, And their tongue clove to their throat.

For behold, I have opened my mouth, And my tongue has spoken.

For there is no truth in their mouth; Their heart is vain; Their throat is an open sepulcher; With their tongues they have used deceit.

Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: Under his tongue are trouble and pain.

Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, And the tongue that speaks great words:

Who have said, We will magnify our tongue; Our lips are our own: who is Lord of us?

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, There is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; With their tongues they have used deceit; The poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Who has not spoken craftily with his tongue, Neither has done evil to his neighbor, Nor taken up a reproach against them that dwelt nearest to him.

Therefore my heart rejoiced And my tongue exulted; Moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue is glued to my throat; And thou hast brought me down to the dust of death.

Thou wilt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the vexation of man: Thou wilt screen them in a tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.

And my tongue shall meditate on thy righteousness, And on thy praise all the day.

The mouth of the righteous will meditate wisdom, And his tongue will speak of judgment.

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, While the sinner stood in my presence.

My heart grew hot within me, And a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue,

My heart has uttered a good matter: I declare my works to the king: My tongue is the pen of a quick writer.

Thy mouth has multiplied wickedness, And thy tongue has framed deceit.

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation: And my tongue shall joyfully declare thy righteousness.

thy tongue has devised unrighteousness; Like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit.

Thou hast loved all words of destruction, And a deceitful tongue.

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: For I have seen iniquity and gainsaying in the city.

And he has delivered my soul from the midst of lions’ whelps: I lay down to sleep, though troubled. As for the sons of men, their teeth are arms and missile weapons, And their tongue a sharp sword.

Who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; They have bent their bow maliciously;

And their tongues have set him at nought, All that saw them were troubled;

I cried to him with my mouth, and exalted him with my tongue.

That thy foot may be dipped in blood, And the tongue of thy dogs be stained with that of thine enemies.

Moreover also my tongue shall dwell all the day upon thy righteousness; When they shall be ashamed and confounded that seek my hurt.

They have set their mouth against heaven, And their tongue has gone through upon the earth.

Yet they loved him only with their mouth, And lied to him with their tongue.

He made it to be a testimony in Joseph, When he came forth out of the land of Egypt: He heard a language which he understood not.

For the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the crafty man have been opened against me: They have spoken against me with a crafty tongue.

Let my tongue utter thine oracles; For all thy commandments are righteous.

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, And from a deceitful tongue.

What should be given to thee, and what should be added to thee, For thy crafty tongue?

Then was our mouth filled with joy, And our tongue with exultation: Then would they say among the Gentiles,

May my tongue cleave to my throat, if I do not remember thee; If I do not prefer Jerusalem as the chief of my joy.

For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things,

They have sharpened their tongue as the tongue of a serpent; The poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.

For length of existence and years of life are in her right hand; And in her left hand are wealth and glory: And she carries law and mercy upon her tongue.

Hands shedding the blood of the just;

And from the calumny of a strange tongue.

But the heart of the ungodly shall fail.

But the tongue of the unjust shall perish.

like swords; But the tongues of the wise heal.

But a hasty witness has an unjust tongue.

The tongue of the wise knows what is good: But the mouth of the foolish tells out evil things.

The wholesome tongue is a tree of life, And he that keeps it shall be filled with understanding.

A bad man hearkens to the tongue of transgressors: But a righteous man attends not to false lips.

A man of a changeful tongue will fall into mischiefs;

Life and death are in the power of the tongue; And they that rule it shall eat the fruits thereof.

He that gathers treasures with a lying tongue Pursues vanity on to the snares of death.

He that keeps his mouth and his tongue Keeps his soul from trouble.

She puts on strength and honor; And rejoices in the last days.

Thy lips drop honeycomb, my spouse: Honey and milk are under thy tongue; And the smell of thy garments is as the smell of Lebanon.

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judea has fallen, and their tongues have spoken with iniquity, disobedient as they are toward the Lord.

In that day there shall be five cities in Egypt speaking the language of Canaan, and swearing by the name of the Lord of hosts; one city shall be called the city of Asedec.

by reason of the contemptuous words of the lips, by means of another language: for they shall speak to this people, saying to them,

And they that erred in spirit shall know understanding, and the murmurers shall learn obedience, and the stammering tongues shall learn to speak peace.

And the heart of the weak ones shall attend to hear, and the stammering tongues shall soon learn to speak peace.

Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall speak plainly; for water has burst forth in the desert, and a channel of water in a thirsty land.

And the poor and the needy shall exult; for when they shall seek water, and there shall be none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord God, I the God of Israel will hear, and will not forsake them:

By myself I swear, righteousness shall surely proceed out of my mouth; my words shall not be frustrated; that to me every knee shall bend, and every tongue shall swear by God,

The Lord even God gives me the tongue of instruction, to know when it is fit to speak a word: he has appointed for me early, he has given me an ear to hear:

Wherein have ye been rioting? and against whom have ye opened your mouth, and against whom have ye loosed your tongue? are ye not children of perdition? a lawless seed?

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.

And I know their works and their imagination. I am going to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

Behold, I will bring upon you a nation from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord; a nation the sound of whose language one shall not understand.

And they have bent their tongue like a bow: falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known me, saith the Lord.

Every one will mock his friend; they will not speak truth: their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.

Their tongue is a wounding arrow; the words of their mouth are deceitful: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in himself retains enmity.

Then they said, Come, and let us devise a device against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.

Behold, I am against the prophets that put forth prophecies of mere words, and slumber their sleep.

The tongue of the sucking child Cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst: The little children ask for bread, And there is none to break it to them.

neither to many nations of other speech and other tongues, nor of harsh language, whose words thou wouldest not understand: although if I had sent thee to such, they would have hearkened to thee.

Also I will bind thy tongue, and thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: because it is a provoking house.

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have been dishonored, and hated by those round about you, that ye might be a possession to the remainder of the nations, and ye became a byword, and a reproach to the nations:

young men in whom was no blemish, and beautiful in appearance, and skilled in all wisdom, and possessing knowledge, and acquainted with prudence, and who had ability to stand in the house before the king, and the king gave commandment to teach them the learning and language of the Chaldeans.

Then a herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, ye peoples, tribes, and languages,

And it came to pass when the nations heard the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the nations, tribes, and languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

or language, that shall speak reproachfully against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be destroyed, and their houses shall be plundered: because there is no other God who shall be able to deliver thus.

King Nebuchadnezzar to all nations, tribes, and tongues, who dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied to you.

and by reason of the majesty which he gave to him, all nations, tribes and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he smote; and whom he would he exalted; and whom he would he abased.

Then King Darius wrote to all nations, tribes, and languages, who dwell in all the earth, saying, Peace be multiplied to you.

And to him was given the dominion, and the honor, and the kingdom; and all nations, tribes, and languages, shall serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed.

They turned aside to that which is not, they became as a bent bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue: this is their setting at nought in the land of Egypt.

whereby they have accumulated their ungodly wealth, and they that dwell in the city have uttered falsehoods, and their tongue has been exalted in their mouth?

For then will I turn to the peoples a tongue for her generation, that all may call on the name of the Lord, to serve him under one yoke.

and the remnant of Israel shall fear the name of the Lord, and shall do no iniquity, neither shall they speak vanity; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed, and lie down, and there shall be none to terrify them.

Thus saith the Lord Almighty; In those days my word shall be fulfilled if ten men of all the languages of the nations should take hold—even take hold of the hem of a Jew, saying, We will go with thee; for we have heard that God is with you.

And this shall be the overthrow with which the Lord will smite all the nations, as many as have fought against Jerusalem; their flesh shall consume away while they are standing upon their feet, and their eyes shall melt out of their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God.

And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:

For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,

And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: