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sa.phah H8193

שָׂפָה (sa.phah) means “lips” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

שָׂפָה Hebrew · H8193 176 tagged occurrences in 164 verses

Pronunciation guide: saw-faw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H8193G

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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TBESH · H8193H

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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TBESH · H8193I

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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TBESH · H8193J

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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TBESH · H8193K

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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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

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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How translators render H8193

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
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

KJV rendering counts
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

Verses containing H8193

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Ezekiel 3:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
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Ezekiel 3:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
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Ezekiel 36:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
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Ezekiel 43:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:
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Ezekiel 47:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Son of man, do you see this?” he asked. Then he led me back to the bank of the river.
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Ezekiel 47:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When I arrived, I saw a great number of trees along both banks of the river.
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Ezekiel 47:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”
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Daniel 10:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And suddenly one with the likeness of a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and said to the one standing before me, “My lord, because of the vision, I am overcome with anguish, and I have no strength.
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Daniel 12:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then I, Daniel, looked and saw two others standing there, one on this bank of the river and one on the opposite bank.
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Hosea 14:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.
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Source alternate reference: 14.3
Habakkuk 3:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.
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Zephaniah 3:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For then I will restore pure lips to the peoples, that all may call upon the name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.
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Malachi 2:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.
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Malachi 2:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.
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