Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H8193: שָׂפָה (sâphâh) Definition

Strong's number
H8193
Lemma
שָׂפָה
Transliteration
sâphâh
Pronunciation
saw-faw'
Strong's definition
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. or (in dual and plural) שֶׂפֶת; probably from H5595 (סָפָה) or H8192 (שָׁפָה) through the idea of termination (compare H5490 (סוֹף));

164 instances of the word שָׂפָה sâphâh (H8193)


  • Genesis 11:6 - said And the LORD Behold the people and they have all one language and they have all one and this they begin to do and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do

  • Genesis 11:7 - Go to let us go down and there confound speech that they may not understand speech another's

  • Genesis 11:9 - called Therefore is the name of it Babel did there confound because the LORD the language of all the earth and from thence did because the LORD upon the face of all the earth

  • Genesis 22:17 - I will bless I will bless I will multiply I will multiply and thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand shore which is upon the sea shall possess and thy seed the gate of his enemies

  • Genesis 41:3 - And behold seven kine other came up after them of the river ill favoured and leanfleshed and stood by kine upon the brink of the river

  • Genesis 41:17 - said And Pharaoh unto Joseph In my dream behold I stood upon the bank of the river

  • Habakkuk 3:16 - When I heard and I trembled my belly at the voice quivered my lips entered rottenness into my bones and I trembled in myself that I might rest in the day of trouble when he cometh up unto the people he will invade them with his troops

  • Hosea 14:2 - Take with you words and turn to the LORD say unto him Take away all iniquity Take us graciously so will we render the calves of our lips

  • Isaiah 6:5 - Then said I Woe is me! for I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips in the midst of a people of unclean lips and I dwell the King the LORD of hosts have seen for mine eyes

  • Isaiah 6:7 - And he laid it upon my mouth and said And he laid thy lips is taken away and thine iniquity and thy sin purged

  • Isaiah 11:4 - shall he judge But with righteousness the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth and he shall smite of the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked

  • Isaiah 19:18 - In that day shall five The city in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan and swear to the LORD of hosts The city of destruction shall be called one

  • Isaiah 28:11 - For with stammering lips tongue and another will he speak to this people

  • Isaiah 29:13 - said Wherefore the Lord Forasmuch draw near as this people me with their mouth and with their lips do honour their heart far by the precept toward me is taught

  • Isaiah 30:27 - Behold the name of the LORD cometh from far burning with his anger thereof is heavy and the burden his lips are full of indignation and his tongue fire as a devouring

  • Isaiah 33:19 - a people a fierce Thou shalt not see a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive of a stammering tongue that thou canst not understand

  • Isaiah 36:5 - I say words sayest thou (but they are but vain I have counsel and strength for war now on whom dost thou trust that thou rebellest

  • Isaiah 37:29 - Because thy rage against me and thy tumult 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

  • Isaiah 57:19 - I create the fruit of the lips Peace Peace to him that is far off and to him that is near saith the LORD and I will heal

  • Isaiah 59:3 - For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity your lips have spoken lies your tongue perverseness hath muttered