Strong’s H8193 · Hebrew
שָׂפָה
sâphâh · saw-faw'
Origin or (in dual and plural) שֶׂפֶת; probably from סָפָה (H5595) or שָׁפָה (H8192) through the idea of termination (compare סוֹף (H5490));
Meaning the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
In the King James Version band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
In 164 verses of the King James Version
51–100 of 164
- Job 12:20He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
- Job 13:6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
- Job 15:6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
- Job 16:5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
- Job 23:12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
- Job 27:4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
- Job 32:20I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
- Job 33:3My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
- Psalms 12:2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
- 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 16:4Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
- Psalms 17:1A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
- Psalms 17:4Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
- Psalms 21:2Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
- Psalms 22:7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
- Psalms 31:18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
- Psalms 34:13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
- Psalms 40:9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
- Psalms 45:2Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
- Psalms 51:15O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
- Psalms 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
- Psalms 59:12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
- Psalms 63:3Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
- Psalms 63:5My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
- Psalms 66:14Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
- Psalms 71:23My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
- Psalms 81:5This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
- Psalms 89:34My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- Psalms 106:33Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
- Psalms 119:13With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
- Psalms 119:171My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
- Psalms 120:2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
- Psalms 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
- Psalms 140:9As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
- Psalms 141:3Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
- Proverbs 4:24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
- Proverbs 5:2That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
- Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
- Proverbs 7:21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
- Proverbs 8:6Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
- Proverbs 8:7For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
- Proverbs 10:8The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
- Proverbs 10:10He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
- Proverbs 10:13In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
- Proverbs 10:18He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
- Proverbs 10:19In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
- Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
- Proverbs 10:32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
- Proverbs 12:13The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
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.