Strong's #8193: saphah (pronounced saw-faw')
or (in dual and plural) sepheth {sef-eth'}; probably from 5595 or 8192 through the idea of termination (compare 5490); 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׂ / ׂ
śâphâh / śepheth
1) lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding
1a) lip (as body part)
1b) language
1c) edge, shore, bank (of cup, sea, river, etc)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490)
Usage:
This word is used 176 times:
Genesis 11:1: "earth was of one language, and of one speech."
Genesis 11:6: "is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now"
Genesis 11:7: "let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one"
Genesis 11:7: "understand one another's speech."
Genesis 11:9: "because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence"
Genesis 22:17: "which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate"
Genesis 41:3: "and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river."
Genesis 41:17: "behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:"
Exodus 2:3: "it in the flags by the river's brink."
Exodus 6:12: "hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?"
Exodus 6:30: "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto"
Exodus 7:15: "and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned"
Exodus 14:30: "the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore."
Exodus 26:4: "loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvage"
Exodus 26:4: "in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second."
Exodus 26:10: "fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outermost in the coupling,"
Exodus 26:10: "and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second."
Exodus 28:26: "ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod"
Exodus 28:32: "in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole"
Exodus 36:11: "loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvage"
Exodus 36:11: "in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second."
Exodus 36:17: "loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops"
Exodus 36:17: "loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second."
Exodus 39:19: "ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod"
Exodus 39:23: "of the robe, as the hole of a habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend."
Leviticus 5:4: "a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever"
Numbers 30:6: "a husband, when she vowed, or uttered aught out of her lips, wherewith she bound"
Numbers 30:8: "her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound"
Numbers 30:12: "hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond"
Deuteronomy 2:36: "Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that"
Deuteronomy 4:48: "From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto"
Deuteronomy 23:23: "That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD"
Joshua 11:4: "that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very"
Joshua 12:2: "from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle"
Joshua 13:9: "From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city"
Joshua 13:16: "from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city"
Judges 7:12: "as the sand by the sea side for multitude."
Judges 7:22: "Beth-shittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abel-meholah, unto Tabbath."
1 Samuel 1:13: "in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard:"
1 Samuel 13:5: "which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash,"
1 Kings 4:29: "that is on the sea shore."
1 Kings 7:23: "sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round"
1 Kings 7:23: "cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height"
1 Kings 7:24: "And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit,"
1 Kings 7:26: "And it was a handbreadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies:"
1 Kings 7:26: "thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained"
1 Kings 9:26: "is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom."
2 Kings 2:13: "from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;"
2 Kings 18:20: "Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now"
2 Kings 19:28: "my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest."
