Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
lips
Usage: : lips/mouth 1) lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding 1a) lip (as body part) 1b) language 1c) edge, shore, bank (of cup, sea, river, etc)
Saphah means “language” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8193 שָׂפָה שֶׂפֶת (saphah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. saphah (saw-faw') (or (in dual and plural) sepheth {sef-eth'}) n-f. 1. the lip (as a natural boundary) 2. (by implication) language It has 164 linked Bible usages across 25 books. Visible English usage signals include lips, language, lip, shore, and bank. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
saphah (saw-faw') (or (in dual and plural) sepheth {sef-eth'}) n-f. 1. the lip (as a natural boundary) 2. (by implication) language 3. (by analogy) a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.) [probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination] KJV: band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, ((sea-))shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words. Root(s): H5595, H8192 Compare: H5490
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lips
Usage: : lips/mouth 1) lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding 1a) lip (as body part) 1b) language 1c) edge, shore, bank (of cup, sea, river, etc)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render saphah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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164 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8193.
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward.
And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.
And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
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.
And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:
From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.
Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
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Saphah (Strong's H8193) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "language". saphah (saw-faw') (or (in dual and plural) sepheth {sef-eth'}) n-f. 1. the lip (as a natural boundary) 2. (by implication) language
This page currently indexes 164 linked usages for Strong's H8193 across 25 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8193 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lips, language, lip, shore, and bank. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.