Tongue
לִשָּׁןStrong’s H3961lishshan (lish-shan)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lishshan is the Aramaic word usually translated “languages the”, “languages” and “language”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,”
Meaning
- Tongue, languagepeople (fig.)
How it's translated
- and languages the 5
- and languages 1
- and language 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 7
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:7In contextTherefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
- Daniel 3:29In contextTherefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
- Daniel 4:1In contextNebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
- Daniel 5:19In contextAnd for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
- Daniel 6:25In contextThen king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
- Daniel 7:14In contextAnd there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Aramaic dictionary
לִשָּׁן lishshan · tongue
1) tongue, language 1a) tongue, language 1b) people (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “language” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LAN'GUAGE, noun
[Latin lingua, the tongue, and speech.]
- Human speech; the expression of ideas by words or significant articulate sounds, for the communication of thoughts. language consists in the oral utterance of sounds, which usage has made the representatives of ideas.
- Words duly arranged in sentences, written, printed or engraved, and exhibited to the eye.
- The speech or expression of ideas peculiar to a particular nation.
- Style; manner of expression.
All definitions
- The inarticulate sounds by which irrational animals express their feelings and wants.
- Any manner of expressing thoughts.
- A nation, as distinguished by their speech. Daniel 3:29
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.