Strong’s H3956 · Hebrew
לָשׁוֹן
lâshôwn · law-shone'
Origin or לָשֹׁן; also (in plural) feminine לְשֹׁנָה; from לָשַׁן (H3960);
Meaning the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
In the King James Version [phrase] babbler, bay, [phrase] evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
In 114 verses of the King James Version
1–50 of 114
- Genesis 10:5By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
- Genesis 10:20These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
- Genesis 10:31These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
- Exodus 4:10And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
- Exodus 11:7But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
- Deuteronomy 28:49The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
- Joshua 7:21When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
- Joshua 7:24And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
- Joshua 10:21And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
- Joshua 15:2And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
- Joshua 15:5And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:
- Joshua 18:19And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.
- Judges 7:5So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
- 2 Samuel 23:2The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
- Nehemiah 13:24And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.
- Esther 1:22For he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.
- Esther 3:12Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king’s ring.
- Esther 8:9Then were the king’s scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.
- Job 5:21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
- Job 6:30Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
- Job 15:5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
- Job 20:12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
- Job 20:16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- Job 27:4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
- Job 29:10The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
- Job 33:2Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
- Job 41:1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
- Psalms 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
- Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- Psalms 12:3The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
- Psalms 12:4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
- Psalms 15:3He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
- Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
- Psalms 31:20Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
- Psalms 34:13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
- Psalms 35:28And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
- Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
- Psalms 39:1To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
- Psalms 39:3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
- Psalms 45:1To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
- Psalms 50:19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
- Psalms 51:14Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
- Psalms 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
- Psalms 52:4Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
- Psalms 55:9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
- Psalms 57:4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
- Psalms 64:3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
- Psalms 64:8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
- Psalms 66:17I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
- Psalms 68:23That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.