Lips
שָׂפָהStrong’s H8193saphah (sa-phah)
Appears in 164 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “lips my”, “lips of” and “lips”. It appears in 164 verses of the Old Testament.
“And, 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.”
Meaning
- Lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, bindinglip (as body part) · language · edge, shore, bank (of cup, sea, river, etc)
How it's translated
- lips my 19
- lips of 17
- lips 16
- lips his 15
- edge of 11
- lips your 9
- shore of 8
- bank of 7
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 45
- Psalms 28
- Exodus 13
- Job 12
- Isaiah 12
- Genesis 7
25 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 12:5In contextThen I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.
- 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;
All 164 verses, by book
- Leviticus 1
- 5:4
- Psalms 28
- 12:212:312:416:417:117:421:222:731:1834:1340:945:251:1559:759:1263:363:566:1471:2381:589:34106:33119:13119:171120:2140:3140:9141:3
- Proverbs 45
- 4:245:25:37:218:68:710:810:1010:1310:1810:1910:2110:3212:1312:1912:2213:314:314:714:2315:716:1016:1316:2116:2316:2716:3017:417:717:2818:618:718:2019:120:1520:1922:1122:1823:1624:224:2624:2826:2326:2427:2
- Ecclesiastes 1
- 10:12
- Jeremiah 1
- 17:16
- Lamentations 1
- 3:62
- Hosea 1
- 14:2
- Habakkuk 1
- 3:16
- Zephaniah 1
- 3:9
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂפָה saphah · lips
: 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)
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.