Strong's Hebrew · H8193
H8193 sâphâh
שָׂפָה
saw-faw'
lips
sâphâh appears 176 times in Scripture, including Genesis 11:1 and Exodus 2:3. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
In the King James Version
band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
Derivation
or (in dual and plural) שֶׂפֶת; probably from H5595 (סָפָה) or H8192 (שָׁפָה) through the idea of termination (compare H5490 (סוֹף));
Appears 176 times in Scripture
“And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.”
“But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.”
“But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?””
“Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,”
“I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.”
“After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.”
“Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.”
“Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.””
“That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
