Lip
פֶּהStrong’s H6310peh
Appears in 460 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Peh is the Hebrew word usually translated “mouth of”, “mouth my” and “mouth his”. It appears in 460 verses of the Old Testament.
“I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.”
Meaning
- Mouthmouth (of man) · mouth (as organ of speech) · mouth (of animals) · mouth, opening, orifice (of a well, river, etc) · extremity, end pim
- A weight equal to one third of a shekel, occurs only in 1Sa 13:21
How it's translated
- mouth of 91
- to mouth of 48
- mouth my 41
- mouth his 40
- mouth your 31
- in mouth of 16
- from mouth of 16
- mouth their 15
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 66
- Proverbs 54
- Numbers 43
- Job 36
- Joshua 26
- Jeremiah 25
35 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 10:16In contextAnd, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
- Zechariah 1:21In contextThen said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
- Zechariah 5:8In contextAnd he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
- Zechariah 8:9In contextThus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.
- Zechariah 9:7In contextAnd I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
- Zechariah 13:8In contextAnd it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
All 460 verses, by book
- Genesis 20
- 4:118:1124:5725:2829:229:329:829:1034:2641:4042:2743:743:1243:2144:144:244:845:1245:2147:12
- Numbers 43
- 3:163:393:514:274:374:414:454:496:217:57:77:89:179:189:209:2310:1312:813:314:4116:3016:3220:2421:2422:1822:2822:3823:523:1223:1624:1326:1026:5426:5627:1427:2130:232:2433:233:3835:835:3036:5
- Deuteronomy 20
- 1:261:438:39:2311:613:1517:617:1017:1118:1819:1520:1321:521:1723:2330:1431:1931:2132:134:5
- Joshua 26
- 1:81:186:106:218:249:29:1410:1810:2210:2710:2810:3010:3210:3510:3710:3911:1111:1211:1415:1317:418:419:4719:5021:322:9
- Nehemiah 1
- 9:20
- Esther 1
- 7:8
- Job 36
- 1:151:173:15:155:167:118:28:219:2015:515:615:1315:3016:516:1019:1620:1221:522:2223:423:1229:929:2330:1831:2732:533:233:635:1636:1637:239:2740:440:2341:1941:21
- Psalms 66
- 5:98:210:717:317:1018:819:1422:1322:2133:634:135:2136:337:3038:1338:1439:139:940:349:349:1350:1650:1951:1554:255:2158:659:759:1262:463:563:1166:1466:1769:1571:871:1573:978:178:278:3078:3681:1089:1105:5107:42109:2109:30115:5119:13119:43119:72119:88119:103119:108119:131126:2133:2135:16135:17138:4141:3141:7144:8144:11145:21
- Proverbs 54
- 2:64:54:245:45:76:26:127:248:38:88:138:2910:610:1110:1410:3110:3211:911:1112:612:812:1413:213:314:315:215:1415:2315:2816:1016:2316:2618:418:618:718:2019:2419:2820:1721:2322:622:1424:726:726:926:1526:2827:227:2130:2030:3231:831:931:26
- Song of Solomon 1
- 1:2
- Isaiah 24
- 1:205:146:79:129:1710:1411:419:729:1330:234:1640:545:2348:349:251:1652:1553:753:955:1157:458:1459:2162:2
- Jeremiah 25
- 1:95:147:289:89:129:2012:215:1921:723:1629:1032:434:336:436:636:1736:1836:2736:3244:1744:2544:2645:148:2851:44
- Joel 1
- 1:5
- Obadiah 1
- 1:12
- Nahum 1
- 3:12
- Zephaniah 1
- 3:13
Hebrew dictionary
פֶּה peh · lip
: lip/mouth peh 1) mouth 1a) mouth (of man) 1b) mouth (as organ of speech) 1c) mouth (of animals) 1d) mouth, opening, orifice (of a well, river, etc) 1e) extremity, end pim 2) a weight equal to one third of a shekel, occurs only in 1Sa 13:21
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lip” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIP, noun
[Latin labium, labrum.]
- The edge or border of the mouth. Job 2:10
- The edge of any thing; as the lip of a vessel.
- In botany, one of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corol.
All definitions and other forms of “lip”
LIP, verb transitive
To kiss.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.