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Lexicon :: Strong's H8193 - śāp̄â

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שָׂפָה
Transliteration
śāp̄â
Pronunciation
saw-faw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from סָפָה (H5595) or שָׁפָה (H8192) through the idea of termination (compare סוֹף (H5490))
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TWOT Reference: 2278a

Strong’s Definitions

שָׂפָה sâphâh, saw-faw'; or (in dual and plural) שֶׂפֶת sepheth; probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.):—band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 176x

The KJV translates Strong's H8193 in the following manner: lip (112x), bank (10x), brim (8x), edge (8x), language (7x), speech (6x), shore (6x), brink (5x), border (3x), side (3x), prating (2x), vain (2x), miscellaneous (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 176x
The KJV translates Strong's H8193 in the following manner: lip (112x), bank (10x), brim (8x), edge (8x), language (7x), speech (6x), shore (6x), brink (5x), border (3x), side (3x), prating (2x), vain (2x), miscellaneous (4x).
  1. lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding

    1. lip (as body part)

    2. language

    3. edge, shore, bank (of cup, sea, river, etc)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׂפָה sâphâh, saw-faw'; or (in dual and plural) שֶׂפֶת sepheth; probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.):—band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
STRONGS H8193: Abbreviations
שָׂפָה 176 noun feminine [masculine Exodus 28:32, edge, compare AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 76], lip, speech, edge; — absolute שׂ׳ Genesis 11:1 +, construct שְׂפַת Genesis 11:7 +; suffix שְׂפָתוֺ 1 Kings 7:23 +, etc.; oftener dual שְׂפָתַיִם Isaiah 6:5 +, construct שִׂפְתֵי Psalm 12:4 +; suffix שְׂפָתַי Jeremiah 17:16 +, suffix 3rd person masculine plural שְׂפָתֵימוֺ Psalm 59:13; Psalm 140:4; Psalm 140:10, etc.; plural (in poetry and late) construct שִׂפְתוֺת Ecclesiastes 10:12, suffix שִׂפְתוֺתֶיךָ etc. Psalm 45:3; Psalm 59:8; Isaiah 59:3; Songs 4:3, 11; Songs 5:13; —
1. lip:
a. usually (approximately + 108 times) human organ of speech (often || פֶּה, לָשׁוֺן rarely [only late poetry] חֵךְ : + 10 times Job; + 25 times Psalms; + 45 times Proverbs):
(1) Isaiah 29:13; Leviticus 5:4 (P), Job 13:6; Malachi 2:6; Psalm 12:5; Proverbs 5:3 +; דַּל שׂ׳ Psalm 141:3 (see דָּל); אִישׁ שׂ׳ Job 11:2 = a talker, אֱוִיל שׂ׳ Proverbs 10:8Proverbs 10:10 (MT; but see Toy); טְמֵא שְׂפָתַיִם Isaiah 6:5 (twice in verse) compare Isaiah 6:7; Daniel 10:16; עֲרַל שׂ׳ Exodus 6:12, 30 (P; unskilled in speech); עִקֵּשׁ שׂ׳ Exodus 19:1; שׂ׳ פֹּתֶה Exodus 20:19 see [פָּתָה]; מוֺצָא שׂ׳ i.e. utterance, Deuteronomy 23:24; Jeremiah 17:16; Numbers 30:13 (P), Psalm 89:35, רוּחַ שׂ׳ Isaiah 11:4 (of Messianic king), דְּבַר שׂ׳ Psalm 59:13; Proverbs 14:23 +, = mere, empty, word 2 Kings 18:20 = Isaiah 36:5; תְּבוּאַת שׂ׳ Proverbs 18:20, נוב שׂ׳ Isaiah 57:19 (thanksgiving), compare Hosea 14:3 (Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version and most פְּדִי for פָּרִים); of flattery, חֵלֶק שׂ׳ Proverbs 7:21, שְׂפַת חֲלָקוֺת Psalm 12:3; Psalm 12:4; compare שִׂפְתֵי מִרְמָה Psalm 17:1, שֶׁקֶר שׂ׳ Psalm 31:9 + 4 times, שְׂפַת אָוֶן Proverbs 17:4; poison beneath (compare לָשׁוֺן) Psalm 140:4 (figurative); שׂ׳ פֶּשַׁע Proverbs 12:13; לְזוּת שׂ׳ Proverbs 4:24; אֱמֶת שׂ׳ Proverbs 12:19, יָ֑תֶר שׂ׳ Proverbs 17:7, צֶדֶק שׂ׳ Proverbs 16:13, דַּעַת שׂ׳ Proverbs 14:7; Proverbs 20:15; חֵן שׂ׳ Proverbs 22:11; שָׂפָה בְרוּרָה Zephaniah 3:9; רְנָנוֺת שׂ׳ Psalm 63:5 i.e. lips that shout for joy; with verbs: שׂ׳ פָּתַח (to speak) Job 11:5; Job 30:20 (Gi Job 30:21), compare Psalm 51:17, מִפְתַּח שׂ׳ Proverbs 8:6; שׂ׳ פָּשַׁק Proverbs 13:3 i.e. prate; מָֽלְאוּ זַעַם שׂ׳ Isaiah 30:27; שׂ׳ subject of דִּבֶּר Isaiah 59:3; Proverbs 24:2; נָשָׂא עַלשֿׂ׳ Psalm 16:14 ; קָרַץ שׂ׳ Proverbs 16:30 = backbite; אָטַם שׂ׳ Proverbs 17:28חָשַׂךְ שׂ׳ Proverbs 10:19, כָּלָא שׂ׳ Psalm 40:10.
† (2) lips moving in speech, with נוּעַ 1 Samuel 1:13, נִיד Job 16:5.
† (3) transition to meaning speech, עָלָה עַלשְֿׂפַת לָשׁוֺן Ezekiel 36:3; = ability to speak Job 12:20.
†b. organ of laughter Job 8:21.
†c. of insulting grimace הִפְטִיר בְּשׂ׳ Psalm 22:8.
†d. quivering in terror Habakkuk 3:16.
†e. feature of beauty Songs 4:3 (scarlet).
f. place of bridle 2 Kings 19:28 = Isaiah 37:29 (see מֶתֶג).
†g. receiving kiss Proverbs 24:26 compare Songs 4:11 and (in figurative) Songs 7:10.
†h. of divine speech, מִצְוַת שׂ׳ Job 23:12, דְּבַר שׂ׳ Psalm 17:4.
†2. language (see לָשׁוֺן), Genesis 11:1, 6, 7 (twice in verse); Genesis 11:9; Psalm 81:6; עַם עִמְקֵי שׂ׳ Ezekiel 3:5, 6; Isaiah 33:19, לַעֲגֵי שׂ׳ Isaiah 28:11; שְׂפַת כְּנַעַן Isaiah 19:18 (i.e. Hebrew).
†3. edge: shore of sea Genesis 22:17 (J) + 7 times; bank of river Genesis 41:3, 17 (E) + 5 times, of wady (נַחַל) Deuteronomy 2:36 + 7 times; lip (bank) of אָבֵל מְחוֺלָה Judges 7:22 compare GASmG 400; brim of vessel 1 Kings 7:23 (twice in verse) + 7 times; edge of altar Ezekiel 43:13; of curtains (in pairs) Exodus 26:4 (twice in verse) (P) + 6 times; of חשֶׁן, toward ephod Exodus 28:26 = Exodus 39:19 (P); of round opening in robe (יִהְיֶה) לְפִיו שׂ׳ Exodus 28:32 = Exodus 39:23 (P).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

11:1; 11:1; 11:6; 11:7; 11:7; 11:9; 22:17; 41:3; 41:17

Exodus

6:12; 6:30; 19:1; 20:19; 26:4; 28:26; 28:32; 28:32; 39:19; 39:23

Leviticus

5:4

Numbers

30:13

Deuteronomy

2:36; 23:24

Judges

7:22

1 Samuel

1:13

1 Kings

7:23; 7:23

2 Kings

18:20; 19:28

Job

8:21; 11:2; 11:5; 12:20; 13:6; 16:5; 23:12; 30:20; 30:21

Psalms

12:3; 12:4; 12:4; 12:5; 17:1; 17:4; 22:8; 31:9; 40:10; 45:3; 51:17; 59:8; 59:13; 59:13; 63:5; 81:6; 89:35; 140:4; 140:4; 140:10; 141:3

Proverbs

4:24; 5:3; 7:21; 8:6; 10:8; 10:10; 10:19; 12:13; 12:19; 13:3; 14:7; 14:23; 16:13; 16:30; 17:4; 17:7; 17:28; 18:20; 20:15; 22:11; 24:2; 24:26

Ecclesiastes

10:12

Song of Songs

4:3; 4:3; 4:11; 4:11; 5:13; 7:10

Isaiah

6:5; 6:5; 6:7; 11:4; 19:18; 28:11; 29:13; 30:27; 33:19; 36:5; 37:29; 57:19; 59:3; 59:3

Jeremiah

17:16; 17:16

Ezekiel

3:5; 3:6; 36:3; 43:13

Daniel

10:16

Hosea

14:3

Habakkuk

3:16

Zephaniah

3:9

Malachi

2:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8193 matches the Hebrew שָׂפָה (śāp̄â),
which occurs 177 times in 164 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 11:1–Job 11:5)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:1 - And the whole earth was of one language, H8193 and of one speech.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6 - And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; H8193 and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, H8193 that they may not understand one another's speech. H8193
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:9 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language H8193 of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - That 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; H8193 and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 - And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink H8193 of the river.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank H8193 of the river:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. H8193
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:12 - And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips? H8193
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:30 - And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, H8193 and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15 - Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink H8193 against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:30 - Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore. H8193
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:4 - And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge H8193 of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge H8193 of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:10 - And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge H8193 of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge H8193 of the curtain which coupleth the second.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:26 - And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border H8193 thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:32 - And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding H8193 of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:11 - And he made loops of blue on the edge H8193 of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side H8193 of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:17 - And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge H8193 of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge H8193 of the curtain which coupleth the second.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:19 - And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border H8193 of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:23 - And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band H8193 round about the hole, that it should not rend.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips H8193 to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:6 - And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, H8193 wherewith she bound her soul;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:8 - But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, H8193 wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:12 - But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips H8193 concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:36 - From Aroer, which is by the brink H8193 of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:48 - From Aroer, which is by the bank H8193 of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23 - That which is gone out of thy lips H8193 thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:4 - And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore H8193 in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:2 - Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank H8193 of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:9 - From Aroer, that is upon the bank H8193 of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:16 - And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank H8193 of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side H8193 for multitude.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22 - And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border H8193 of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:13 - Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips H8193 moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:5 - And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore H8193 in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:29 - And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. H8193
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:23 - And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim H8193 to the other: H8193 it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:24 - And under the brim H8193 of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26 - And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim H8193 thereof was wrought like the brim H8193 of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:26 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore H8193 of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:13 - He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank H8193 of Jordan;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:20 - Thou sayest, (but they are but vain H8193 words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:28 - Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, H8193 and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:2 - Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim H8193 to brim, H8193 round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5 - And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim H8193 of it like the work of the brim H8193 of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:17 - Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side H8193 in the land of Edom.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:10 - But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. H8193
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:21 - Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips H8193 with rejoicing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:2 - Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk H8193 be justified?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:5 - But oh that God would speak, and open his lips H8193 against thee;

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