1 | Strong's Number: g5491 | Greek: cheilos |
Lip:
is used
(a) of the organ of speech, Mat 15:8; Mar 7:6, where "honoring with the lips," besides meaning empty words, may have reference to a Jewish custom of putting to the mouth the tassel of the tallith (the woollen scarf wound round the head and neck during prayer), as a sign of acceptance of the Law from the heart; Rom 3:13; 1Cr 14:21 (from Isa 28:11, 12, speaking of the Assyrian foe as God's message to disobedient Israel); Hbr 13:15; 1Pe 3:10;
(b) metaphorically, of "the brink or edge of things," as of the sea shore, Hbr 11:12, lit., "the shore (of the sea)."
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