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Lexicon :: Strong's G3047 - lips

Aa
λίψ
Transliteration
lips (Key)
Pronunciation
leeps
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from leibo (to pour a "libation")
mGNT
1x in 1 unique form(s) TR
1x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
46x in 5 unique form(s)
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Strong’s Definitions

λίψ líps, leeps; probably from λείβω leíbō (to pour a "libation"); the south(- west) wind (as bringing rain, i.e. (by extension) the south quarter):—southwest.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G3047 in the following manner: south west (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G3047 in the following manner: south west (1x).

  1. the south west wind

  2. the quarter of the heavens whence the south west wind blows

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
λίψ líps, leeps; probably from λείβω leíbō (to pour a "libation"); the south(- west) wind (as bringing rain, i.e. (by extension) the south quarter):—southwest.
STRONGS G3047:
λίψ, λιβός, ὁ (from λείβω (to pour forth), because it brings moisture);
1. the southwest wind: Herodotus 2, 25; Polybius 10, 10, 3; others.
2. the quarter of the heavens whence the southwest wind blows: Acts 27:12 (on which see βλέπω, 3 and κατά, II. 1 c.) (Genesis 13:14; Genesis 20:1; Numbers 2:10; Deuteronomy 33:23).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
13:14; 20:1
Numbers
2:10
Deuteronomy
33:23
Acts
27:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3047 matches the Greek λίψ (lips),
which occurs 46 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - And Jehovah said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62 - And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the land of the South.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:9 - And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:9 - And he made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:10 - On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:29 - The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the side of the tabernacle southward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:6 - And when ye blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:4 - and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out thereof shall be southward of Kadesh-barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - And ye shall measure without the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:27 - Get thee up unto the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:23 - And of Naphtali he said,
O Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
And full with the blessing of Jehovah,
Possess thou the west and the south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:1 - And the lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was unto the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:2 - And their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looketh southward;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:3 - and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh-barnea, and passed along by Hezron, and went up to Addar, and turned about to Karka;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:4 - and it passed along to Azmon, and went out at the brook of Egypt; and the goings out of the border were at the sea: this shall be your south border.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:7 - and the border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river; and the border passed along to the waters of En-shemesh, and the goings out thereof were at En-rogel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8 - and the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the side of the Jebusite southward (the same is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the uttermost part of the vale of Rephaim northward;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:10 - and the border turned about from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9 - And the border went down unto the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook: these cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh: and the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and the goings out thereof were at the sea:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10 - southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was his border; and they reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:5 - And they shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall abide in his border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their border on the north.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:13 - And the border passed along from thence to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Beth-el), southward; and the border went down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain that lieth on the south of Beth-horon the nether.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:14 - And the border extended thence, and turned about on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kiriath-baal (the same is Kiriath-jearim), a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:15 - And the south quarter was from the uttermost part of Kiriath-jearim; and the border went out westward, and went out to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:16 - and the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the vale of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:19 - and the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward; and the goings out of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this was the south border.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:8 - and all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:18 - The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Soco with the towns thereof, and Timnah with the towns thereof, Gimzo also and the towns thereof: and they dwelt there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:30 - This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:14 - Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he compassed Ophel about with it, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:26 -
He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens;
And by his power he guided the south wind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:6 - I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:19 - And the south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, unto the great sea. This is the south side southward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:28 - And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, unto the great sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:5 - And as I was considering, behold, a he-goat came from the west over the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
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