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Strong's #1100: glossa (pronounced gloce-sah')

of uncertain affinity; the tongue; by implication, a language (specially, one naturally unacquired):--tongue.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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glōssa

1) the tongue, a member of the body, an organ of speech

2) a tongue

1a) the language or dialect used by a particular people distinct from that of other nations

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: of uncertain affinity

Citing in TDNT: 1:719, 123




Usage:

This word is used 50 times:

Mark 7:33: "and he spit, and touched his tongue;"
Mark 7:35: "the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain."
Mark 16:17: "devils; they shall speak with new tongues;"
Luke 1:64: "immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God."
Luke 16:24: "and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this"
Acts 2:3: "there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat"
Acts 2:4: "began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave"
Acts 2:11: "them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God."
Acts 2:26: "heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover"
Acts 10:46: "they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then"
Acts 19:6: "them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied."
Romans 3:13: "is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under"
Romans 14:11: "shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God."
1 Corinthians 12:10: "to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:"
1 Corinthians 12:10: "to another the interpretation of tongues:"
1 Corinthians 12:28: "of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues."
1 Corinthians 12:30: "do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?"
1 Corinthians 13:1: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and"
1 Corinthians 13:8: "there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away."
1 Corinthians 14:2: "For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God:"
1 Corinthians 14:4: "He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church."
1 Corinthians 14:5: "that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied:"
1 Corinthians 14:5: "is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh, with tongues, except he interpret, that"
1 Corinthians 14:6: "unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except"
1 Corinthians 14:9: "ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known"
1 Corinthians 14:13: "Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret."
1 Corinthians 14:14: "For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but"
1 Corinthians 14:18: "my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:"
1 Corinthians 14:19: "ten thousand words in an unknown tongue."
1 Corinthians 14:22: "Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but"
1 Corinthians 14:23: "and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or"
1 Corinthians 14:26: "hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation."
1 Corinthians 14:27: "If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the"
1 Corinthians 14:39: "forbid not to speak with tongues."
Philippians 2:11: "And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,"
James 1:26: "and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart,"
James 3:5: "Even so the tongue is a little member, and"
James 3:6: "And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; so is"
James 3:6: "so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth"
James 3:8: "But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly"
1 Peter 3:10: "days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his"
1 John 3:18: "love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth."
Revelation 5:9: "every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;"
Revelation 7:9: "kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the"
Revelation 10:11: "and nations, and tongues, and kings."
Revelation 11:9: "and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their"
Revelation 13:7: "all kindreds, and tongues, and nations."
Revelation 14:6: "and kindred, and tongue, and people,"
Revelation 16:10: "and they gnawed their tongues for pain,"
Revelation 17:15: "and nations, and tongues."









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