שָׂפָה (sa.phah) means “lips” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: saw-faw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
שָׂפָה · sa.phah · 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)
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שָׂפָה · sa.phah · lip: words
: words/language 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)
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שָׂפָה · sa.phah · lip: edge
: edge/border/opening 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)
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שָׂפָה · sa.phah · lip: shore
: shore/bank(of_sea/river) 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)
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שָׂפָה · sa.phah · lip: language
: language 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)
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or (in dual and plural) שֶׂפֶת; probably from H5595 (סָפָה) or H8192 (שָׁפָה) through the idea of termination (compare H5490 (סוֹף)); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
KJV glosses: band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| lips | 22 |
| my lips | 11 |
| his lips | 7 |
| the lips | 7 |
| your lips | 7 |
| of my lips | 6 |
| the edge | 6 |
| the rim | 6 |
| speech | 5 |
| the bank | 5 |
| the seashore | 5 |
| and your lips | 3 |
| language | 3 |
| of his lips | 3 |
| with his lips | 3 |
| and its rim | 2 |
| banks | 2 |
| but the lips | 2 |
| edge | 2 |
| from rim | 2 |
| her lips | 2 |
| in speech | 2 |
| in your mouth | 2 |
| like the brim | 2 |
| on the lips | 2 |
| rim | 2 |
| the language | 2 |
| the shore | 2 |
| words | 2 |
| your own lips | 2 |
| and his lips | 1 |
| and his speech | 1 |
| and my lips | 1 |
| and their lips | 1 |
| bank | 1 |
| but lips | 1 |
| collar | 1 |
| far as the border | 1 |
| from his lips | 1 |
| from his speech | 1 |
| from their lips | 1 |
| from your lips | 1 |
| his tongue | 1 |
| in what he said | 1 |
| it comes from lips | 1 |
| its edge | 1 |
| of our lips | 1 |
| of speech | 1 |
| of their lips | 1 |
| of your lips | 1 |
| on his lips | 1 |
| on this bank | 1 |
| our lips | 1 |
| the coast | 1 |
| the slander | 1 |
| their language | 1 |
| their lips | 1 |
| their lips have caused | 1 |
| these are empty | 1 |
| to my lips | 1 |
| to the bank | 1 |
| to their lips | 1 |
| vvv | 1 |
| when your lips | 1 |
| whose lips | 1 |
| whose speech | 1 |
| with a collar | 1 |
| with his speech | 1 |
| with my lips | 1 |
| with their lips | 1 |
| with your lips | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| lips | 23 |
| my lips | 8 |
| his lips | 7 |
| of my lips | 6 |
| of his lips | 5 |
| shore | 5 |
| speech | 5 |
| the lips | 5 |
| thy lips | 4 |
| upon the bank | 4 |
| with his lips | 4 |
| but the lips | 3 |
| in the lips | 3 |
| in thy lips | 3 |
| language | 3 |
| of the lips | 3 |
| side | 3 |
| and the brim | 2 |
| and thy lips | 2 |
| brink | 2 |
| but a prating | 2 |
| by the bank | 2 |
| edge | 2 |
| in his lips | 2 |
| of thy lips | 2 |
| on the edge | 2 |
| the language | 2 |
| the lip | 2 |
| vain | 2 |
| a band | 1 |
| a language | 1 |
| and his lips | 1 |
| and in his lips | 1 |
| and my lips | 1 |
| and not thine own lips | 1 |
| and their lips | 1 |
| and under the brim | 1 |
| and with their lips | 1 |
| behold at the bank | 1 |
| by the brink | 1 |
| causing the lips | 1 |
| for the lips | 1 |
| from brim | 1 |
| from the one brim | 1 |
| full of talk | 1 |
| he upon the edge | 1 |
| in the border | 1 |
| in the edge | 1 |
| in their lips | 1 |
| into my lips | 1 |
| into thy lips | 1 |
| like the brim | 1 |
| of her lips | 1 |
| of our lips | 1 |
| of the bank | 1 |
| of the brim | 1 |
| of their lips | 1 |
| of their own lips | 1 |
| on that side of the bank | 1 |
| on the bank | 1 |
| on the shore | 1 |
| only her lips | 1 |
| ought out of her lips | 1 |
| our lips | 1 |
| out of her lips | 1 |
| the speech | 1 |
| thee and not i yea thine own lips | 1 |
| their language | 1 |
| thereof by the edge | 1 |
| thereof it shall have a binding | 1 |
| thou my lips | 1 |
| to brim | 1 |
| to his lips | 1 |
| to my lips | 1 |
| to the border | 1 |
| to the brink | 1 |
| to the other | 1 |
| under their lips | 1 |
| upon the border | 1 |
| upon the brink | 1 |
| upon the edge | 1 |
| when thy lips | 1 |
| which my lips | 1 |
| with her lips | 1 |
| with my lips | 1 |
| with thy lips | 1 |
| your lips | 1 |
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Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordCome, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
Read word by wordThat 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.
Read word by wordI 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.
Read word by wordAfter 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.
Read word by wordThen Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordBut 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?”
Read word by wordBut in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “Since I am unskilled in speech, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”
Read word by wordGo to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
Read word by wordThat day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore.
Read word by wordMake loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and do the same for the end curtain in the second set.
Read word by wordMake fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.
Read word by wordMake two more gold rings and attach them to the other two corners of the breastpiece, on the inside edge next to the ephod.
Read word by wordwith an opening at its top in the center. Around the opening shall be a woven collar with an opening like that of a garment, so that it will not tear.
Read word by wordHe made loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and also on the end curtain in the second set.
Read word by wordHe made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.
Read word by wordThey made two more gold rings and attached them to the other two corners of the breastpiece, on the inside edge next to the ephod.
Read word by wordwith an opening in the center of the robe like that of a garment, with a collar around the opening so that it would not tear.
Read word by wordOr if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil—in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty in the matter.
Read word by wordIf a woman marries while under a vow or rash promise by which she has bound herself,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 30.7
But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 30.9
But if her husband nullifies them on the day he hears of them, then nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or pledges, shall stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will absolve her.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 30.13
From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
Read word by wordextending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),
Read word by wordBe careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 23.24
So these kings came out with all their armies, a multitude as numerous as the sand on the seashore, along with a great number of horses and chariots.
Read word by wordSihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of the Ammonites), that is, half of Gilead,
Read word by wordThe area from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,
Read word by wordThe territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, to the whole plateau beyond Medeba,
Read word by wordNow the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
Read word by wordAnd when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.
Read word by wordHannah was praying in her heart, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk
Read word by wordNow the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.
Read word by wordAnd God gave Solomon wisdom, exceedingly deep insight, and understanding beyond measure, like the sand on the seashore.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.9
He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
Read word by wordBelow the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.
Read word by wordIt was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
Read word by wordKing Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
Read word by wordElisha also picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah, and he went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.
Read word by wordYou claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
Read word by wordBecause your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
Read word by wordHe also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
Read word by wordIt was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.
Read word by wordThen Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the coast of Edom.
Read word by word“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
Read word by wordHe will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.
Read word by word“Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?
Read word by wordBut if only God would speak and open His lips against you,
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