Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H8193
שָׂפָה
sa.phah · “lips”
Used 177 times across 25 books
Definition
: 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)
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)
Where it appears
Genesis8
Exodus17
Leviticus1
Numbers3
Deuteronomy3
Joshua4
Judges2
1 Samuel2
1 Kings6
2 Kings3
2 Chronicles5
Job12
Psalms28
Proverbs48
Ecclesiastes1
Song of Solomon4
Isaiah13
Jeremiah1
Lamentations1
Ezekiel7
Daniel3
Hosea1
Habakkuk1
Zephaniah1
Malachi2
In the text
Genesis 11:1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.Genesis 11:6And 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.Genesis 11:7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.Genesis 11:9Therefore 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.Genesis 22:17That 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;Genesis 41:3And, 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.Genesis 41:17And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:Exodus 2:3And 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.Exodus 6:12And 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?Exodus 6:30And Moses said before the Lord, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
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