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Lexicon :: Strong's G5491 - cheilos

Aa
χεῖλος
Transliteration
cheilos (Key)
Pronunciation
khi'-los
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a form of the same as χάσμα (G5490)
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Strong’s Definitions

χεῖλος cheîlos, khi'-los; from a form of the same as G5490; a lip (as a pouring place); figuratively, a margin (of water):—lip, shore.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G5491 in the following manner: lip (6x), shore (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G5491 in the following manner: lip (6x), shore (1x).

  1. a lip, of the speaking mouth

  2. metaph. the sea shore

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
χεῖλος cheîlos, khi'-los; from a form of the same as G5490; a lip (as a pouring place); figuratively, a margin (of water):—lip, shore.
STRONGS G5491:
χεῖλος, χείλους, τό, genitive plural in the uncontracted form χειλέων (Hebrews 13:15; see ὄρος) (χέω equivalent to ΧΑΩ, χαίνω), from Homer down, the Sept. for שָׂפָה, a lip;
a. in the N. T. of the speaking mouth (cf. Winer's Grammar, 32): Matthew 15:8; Mark vil. 6; Romans 3:13; 1 Corinthians 14:21; Hebrews 13:15 (on which see καρπός, 2 c.); 1 Peter 3:10.
b. metaphorically: χεῖλος τῆς θαλάσσης, the seashore, Hebrews 11:12 (Genesis 22:17; Exodus 7:15; Exodus 14:30, etc.; of the shore of a lake, Josephus, b. j. 3, 10, 7; of the banks of rivers, Herodotus 2 (70). 94; (Aristotle, de mirab. aud. 46; 150; cf. hist. an. 6, 16, p. 570a, 22); Polybius 3, 14, 6; (cf. Winer's Grammar, pp. 18, 30)).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
22:17
Exodus
7:15; 14:30
Matthew
15:8
Romans
3:13
1 Corinthians
14:21
Hebrews
11:12; 13:15; 13:15
1 Peter
3:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5491 matches the Greek χεῖλος (cheilos),
which occurs 150 times in 140 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 11:1–Psa 21:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:1 - And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6 - And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:9 - Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

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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 heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 - And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15

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 to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:30 - Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea-shore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:4 - And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:10 - And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops upon the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second coupling.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - Or if any one swear rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall utter rashly with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:6 - And if she be married to a husband, while her vows are upon her, or the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:12 - But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and Jehovah will forgive her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:36

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:36 - From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, even unto Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Jehovah our God delivered up all before us:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:12 - And this land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:48 - from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even unto mount Sion (the same is Hermon),

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23 - That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt observe and do; according as thou hast vowed unto Jehovah thy God, a freewill-offering, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:9 - from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:15 -
And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah;
As was Issachar, so was Barak;
Into the valley they rushed forth at his feet.
By the watercourses of Reuben
There were great resolves of heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22 - And they blew the three hundred trumpets, and Jehovah set every man’s sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:13 - Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:23 - And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:24 - And under the brim of it round about there were knops which did compass it, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about: the knops were in two rows, cast when it was cast.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26 - And it was a handbreadth thick: and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:26 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

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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 of the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:33 - from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:20 - Thou sayest (but they are but vain words), There is counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:28 - Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5 - And it was a handbreadth thick; and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:10

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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:21 -
He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter,
And thy lips with shouting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:5 -
But oh that God would speak,
And open his lips against thee,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:20 -
He removeth the speech of the trusty,
And taketh away the understanding of the elders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:6 -
Hear now my reasoning,
And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:6 -
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I;
Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:5 -
But I would strengthen you with my mouth,
And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:4 -
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness,
Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:20 -
I will speak, that I may be refreshed;
I will open my lips and answer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:3 -
My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart;
And that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:2 -
Canst thou put a rope into his nose?
Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:2 -
They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor:
With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:3 -
Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that speaketh great things;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:4 -
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail;
Our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3 -
They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy;
There is none that doeth good, no, not one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:4 -
Their sorrows shall be multiplied that give gifts for another god:
Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer,
Nor take their names upon my lips.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:1 -
A Prayer of David.
Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry;
Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:4 -
As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips
I have kept me from the ways of the violent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:2 -
Thou hast given him his heart’s desire,
And hast not withholden the request of his lips.
[Selah

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