Strong's Greek · G5491

χεῖλος

cheîlos

lip, shore

Definition

a lip (as a pouring place); figuratively, a margin (of water)

Derivation

from a form of the same as G5490 (χάσμα);

Appears 7 times in Scripture

1 Corinthians 14:21

It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.”

1 Peter 3:10

For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.

Hebrews 11:12

And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

Mark 7:6

Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

Hebrews 13:15

Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

Romans 3:13

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

Matthew 15:8

‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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