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Strong's #8222: sapham (pronounced saw-fawm')

from 8193; the beard (as a lip-piece):--beard, (upper) lip.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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śâphâm

1) moustache

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H8193



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Leviticus 13:45: "bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean."
2 Samuel 19:24: "his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from"
Ezekiel 24:17: "upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men."
Ezekiel 24:22: "I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread"
Micah 3:7: "confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer"









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