שָׂפָהsâphâh/saw-faw'/
HebrewH8193176 occurrences (KJV)
the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
KJV renders it: band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
Where it appears(showing the first 164 of 176)
- Gen 11:1The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
- Gen 11:6Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
- Gen 11:7Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
- Gen 11:9Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
- Gen 22:17that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
- Gen 41:3Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.
- Gen 41:17Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:
- Exod 2:3When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
- Exod 6:12Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am of uncircumcised lips?”
- Exod 6:30Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”
- Exod 7:15Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.
- Exod 14:30Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
- Exod 26:4You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling; and likewise you shall make in the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second coupling.
- Exod 26:10You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outermost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outermost in the second coupling.
- Exod 28:26You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.
- Exod 28:32It shall have a hole for the head in the middle of it. It shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.
- Exod 36:11He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second coupling.
- Exod 36:17He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second coupling.
- Exod 39:19They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.
- Exod 39:23The opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.
- Lev 5:4“‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these.
- Num 30:6“If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,
- Num 30:8But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. Yahweh will forgive her.
- Num 30:12But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. Yahweh will forgive her.
- Deut 2:36From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Yahweh our God delivered up all before us.
- Deut 4:48from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (also called Hermon),
- Deut 23:23You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.
- Josh 11:4They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.
- Josh 12:2Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
- Josh 13:9from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;
- Josh 13:16Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
- Judg 7:12The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
- Judg 7:22They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow, and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
- 1 Sam 1:13Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.
- 1 Sam 13:5The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
- 1 Kgs 4:29God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.
- 1 Kgs 7:23He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in shape. Its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it.
- 1 Kgs 7:24Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
- 1 Kgs 7:26It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.
- 1 Kgs 9:26King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
- 2 Kgs 2:13He also took up Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.
- 2 Kgs 18:20You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
- 2 Kgs 19:28Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’
- 2 Chr 4:2Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim. It was round, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference.
- 2 Chr 4:5It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths.
- 2 Chr 8:17Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom.
- Job 2:10But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
- Job 8:21He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
- Job 11:2“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?
- Job 11:5But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,
- Job 12:20He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
- Job 13:6Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
- Job 15:6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
- Job 16:5but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
- Job 23:12I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
- Job 27:4surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
- Job 32:20I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.
- Job 33:3My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
- Ps 12:2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
- Ps 12:3May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
- Ps 12:4who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”
- Ps 16:4Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.
- Ps 17:1A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
- Ps 17:4As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
- Ps 21:2You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.
- Ps 22:7All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
- Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
- Ps 34:13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
- Ps 40:9I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
- Ps 45:2You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.
- Ps 51:15Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.
- Ps 59:7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”
- Ps 59:12For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.
- Ps 63:3Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
- Ps 63:5My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
- Ps 66:14which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
- Ps 71:23My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!
- Ps 81:5He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.
- Ps 89:34I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
- Ps 106:33because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.
- Ps 119:13With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
- Ps 119:171Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.
- Ps 120:2Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
- Ps 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.
- Ps 140:9As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
- Ps 141:3Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
- Prov 4:24Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
- Prov 5:2that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
- Prov 5:3For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
- Prov 7:21With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
- Prov 8:6Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.
- Prov 8:7For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
- Prov 10:8The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.
- Prov 10:10One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.
- Prov 10:13Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
- Prov 10:18He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
- Prov 10:19In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
- Prov 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
- Prov 10:32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.
- Prov 12:13An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.
- Prov 12:19Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.
- Prov 12:22Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
- Prov 13:3He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
- Prov 14:3The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
- Prov 14:7Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.
- Prov 14:23In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
- Prov 15:7The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.
- Prov 16:10Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.
- Prov 16:13Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.
- Prov 16:21The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
- Prov 16:23The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
- Prov 16:27A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.
- Prov 16:30One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.
- Prov 17:4An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
- Prov 17:7Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.
- Prov 17:28Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
- Prov 18:6A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
- Prov 18:7A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
- Prov 18:20A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.
- Prov 19:1Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
- Prov 20:15There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
- Prov 20:19He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
- Prov 22:11He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.
- Prov 22:18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
- Prov 23:16yes, my heart will rejoice, when your lips speak what is right.
- Prov 24:2for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.
- Prov 24:26An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.
- Prov 24:28Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
- Prov 26:23Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
- Prov 26:24A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.
- Prov 27:2Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
- Eccl 10:12The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
- Song 4:3Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
- Song 4:11Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
- Song 5:13His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
- Song 7:9Your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
- Isa 6:5Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
- Isa 6:7He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”
- Isa 11:4but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
- Isa 19:18In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called “The city of destruction.”
- Isa 28:11But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;
- Isa 29:13The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
- Isa 30:27Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire.
- Isa 33:19You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand.
- Isa 36:5I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
- Isa 37:29Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
- Isa 57:19I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”
- Isa 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
- Jer 17:16As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.
- Lam 3:62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all day long.
- Ezek 3:5For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
- Ezek 3:6not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.
- Ezek 36:3therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;
- Ezek 43:13These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a hand width): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.
- Ezek 47:6He said to me, Son of man, have you seen? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river.
- Ezek 47:7Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
- Ezek 47:12By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.
- Dan 10:16Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, my lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows are turned on me, and I retain no strength.
- Dan 12:5Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on the river bank on this side, and the other on the river bank on that side.
- Hos 14:2Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.
- Hab 3:16I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
- Zeph 3:9For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
- Mal 2:6The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
- Mal 2:7For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.