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שָׂפָה

sa.phahlipsHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · feminine176 occurrences25 books164 verses

Definition

or (in dual and plural) שֶׂפֶת; probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
Traditional renderings: band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders שָׂפָה:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

176 total
  1. Isaiah 19:18שְׂפַ֣ת · the language
    In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.
  2. Isaiah 28:11שָׂפָ֔ה · lips
    Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
  3. Isaiah 29:13וּבִשְׂפָתָיו֙ · with their lips
    Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
  4. Isaiah 30:27שְׂפָתָיו֙ · His lips
    Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
  5. Isaiah 33:19שָׂפָה֙ · whose speech
    You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
  6. Isaiah 36:5שְׂפָתַ֔יִם · words
    You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
  7. Isaiah 37:29בִּשְׂפָתֶ֔יךָ · in your mouth
    Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
  8. Isaiah 57:19שְׂפָתָ֑יִם · to their lips
    …bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal them.”
  9. Isaiah 59:3שִׂפְתֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ · your lips
    For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
  10. Jeremiah 17:16שְׂפָתַ֔י · of my lips
    But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.
  11. Lamentations 3:62שִׂפְתֵ֤י · the slander
    …the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
  12. Ezekiel 3:5שָׂפָ֛ה · speech
    For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
  13. Ezekiel 3:6שָׂפָה֙ · speech
    …not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
  14. Ezekiel 36:3שְׂפַ֥ת · the lips
    …therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
  15. Ezekiel 43:13שְׂפָתָ֤הּ · its edge
    These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:
  16. Ezekiel 47:6שְׂפַ֥ת · to the bank
    “Son of man, do you see this?” he asked. Then he led me back to the bank of the river.
  17. Ezekiel 47:7שְׂפַ֣ת · banks
    When I arrived, I saw a great number of trees along both banks of the river.
  18. Ezekiel 47:12שְׂפָת֣וֹ · banks
    Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”
  19. Daniel 10:16שְׂפָתָ֑י · my lips
    And suddenly one with the likeness of a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and said to the one standing before me, “My lord, because of the vision, I am overcome with anguish, and I have no strength.
  20. Daniel 12:5לִשְׂפַ֣ת · on this bank; לִשְׂפַ֥ת · bank
    Then I, Daniel, looked and saw two others standing there, one on this bank of the river and one on the opposite bank.
  21. Hosea 14:2שְׂפָתֵֽינוּ׃ · of our lips
    Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.
  22. Habakkuk 3:16שְׂפָתַ֔י · my lips
    I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.
  23. Zephaniah 3:9שָׂפָ֣ה · lips
    For then I will restore pure lips to the peoples, that all may call upon the name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.
  24. Malachi 2:6בִשְׂפָתָ֑יו · on his lips
    True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.
  25. Malachi 2:7שִׂפְתֵ֤י · the lips
    For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.