- Original: שׂפת שׂפה
- Transliteration: Saphah
- Phonetic: saw-faw'
- Definition:
1. lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding
a. lip (as body part)
b. language
c. edge, shore, bank (of cup, sea, river, etc)
- Origin: probably from
H5595 or
H8192 through the idea of termination (compare
H5490 )
- TWOT entry: 2278a
- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine
- Strong's: (The second form is in dual and plural); Probably from
H5595 or
H8192 through the idea of termination (compare
H5490 ); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication language; by analogy a margin (of a vessel water cloth etc.): - band bank binding border brim brink edge language lip prating ([sea-]) shore side speech talk [vain] words.
Total KJV Occurrences: 176
• band, 1
Exodus 39:23
• bank, 10
Genesis 41:17;
Deuteronomy 4:48;
Joshua 12:2;
Joshua 13:9;
Joshua 13:16;
2 Kings 2:13;
Ezekiel 47:7;
Ezekiel 47:12;
Daniel 12:5(2)
• binding, 1
Exodus 28:32
• border, 3
Exodus 28:26;
Exodus 39:19;
Judges 7:22
• brim, 8
1 Kings 7:23;
1 Kings 7:24;
1 Kings 7:26(2);
2 Chronicles 4:2(2);
2 Chronicles 4:5(2)
• brink, 5
Genesis 41:3;
Exodus 2:3;
Exodus 7:15;
Deuteronomy 2:36;
Ezekiel 47:6
• edge, 8
Exodus 26:4(2);
Exodus 26:10(2);
Exodus 36:11;
Exodus 36:17(2);
Ezekiel 43:13
• language, 7
Genesis 11:1;
Genesis 11:6;
Genesis 11:7;
Genesis 11:9;
Psalm 81:5;
Isaiah 19:18;
Zephaniah 3:9
• lip, 2
Psalm 22:7;
Proverbs 12:19
• lips, 110
Exodus 6:12;
Exodus 6:30;
Leviticus 5:4;
Numbers 30:6;
Numbers 30:8;
Numbers 30:12;
Deuteronomy 23:23;
1 Samuel 1:13;
2 Kings 19:28;
Job 2:10;
Job 8:21;
Job 11:5;
Job 13:6;
Job 15:6;
Job 16:5;
Job 23:12;
Job 27:4;
Job 32:20;
Job 33:3;
Psalm 12:2;
Psalm 12:3;
Psalm 12:4;
Psalm 16:4;
Psalm 17:1;
Psalm 17:4;
Psalm 21:2;
Psalm 31:18;
Psalm 34:13;
Psalm 40:9;
Psalm 45:2;
Psalm 51:15;
Psalm 59:7;
Psalm 59:12;
Psalm 63:3;
Psalm 63:5;
Psalm 66:14;
Psalm 71:23;
Psalm 89:34;
Psalm 106:33;
Psalm 119:13;
Psalm 119:171;
Psalm 120:2;
Psalm 140:3;
Psalm 140:9;
Psalm 141:3;
Proverbs 4:24;
Proverbs 5:2;
Proverbs 5:3;
Proverbs 7:21;
Proverbs 8:6;
Proverbs 8:7;
Proverbs 10:13;
Proverbs 10:18;
Proverbs 10:19;
Proverbs 10:21;
Proverbs 10:32;
Proverbs 12:13;
Proverbs 12:22;
Proverbs 13:3;
Proverbs 14:3;
Proverbs 14:7;
Proverbs 14:23;
Proverbs 15:7;
Proverbs 16:10;
Proverbs 16:13;
Proverbs 16:21;
Proverbs 16:23;
Proverbs 16:27;
Proverbs 16:30;
Proverbs 17:4;
Proverbs 17:7;
Proverbs 17:28;
Proverbs 18:6;
Proverbs 18:7;
Proverbs 18:20;
Proverbs 19:1;
Proverbs 20:15;
Proverbs 20:19;
Proverbs 22:11;
Proverbs 22:18;
Proverbs 23:16;
Proverbs 24:2;
Proverbs 24:26;
Proverbs 24:28;
Proverbs 26:23;
Proverbs 26:24;
Proverbs 27:2;
Ecclesiastes 10:12;
Song of Songs 4:3;
Song of Songs 4:11;
Song of Songs 5:13;
Song of Songs 7:9;
Isaiah 6:5(2);
Isaiah 6:7;
Isaiah 11:4;
Isaiah 28:11;
Isaiah 29:13;
Isaiah 30:27;
Isaiah 37:29;
Isaiah 57:19;
Isaiah 59:3;
Jeremiah 17:16;
Lamentations 3:62;
Ezekiel 36:3;
Daniel 10:16;
Hosea 14:2;
Habakkuk 3:16;
Malachi 2:6;
Malachi 2:7
• other, 1
1 Kings 7:23
• prating, 2
Proverbs 10:8;
Proverbs 10:10
• shore, 6
Genesis 22:17;
Exodus 14:30;
Joshua 11:4;
1 Samuel 13:5;
1 Kings 4:29;
1 Kings 9:26
• side, 3
Exodus 36:11;
Judges 7:12;
2 Chronicles 8:17
• speech, 6
Genesis 11:7;
Job 12:20;
Proverbs 17:7;
Isaiah 33:19;
Ezekiel 3:5;
Ezekiel 3:6
• talk, 1
Job 11:2
• vain, 2
2 Kings 18:20;
Isaiah 36:5
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