Strong's #3956: lashown (pronounced law-shone')
or lashon {law-shone'}; also (in plural) feminine lshonah {lesh-o-naw'}; from 3960; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water):--+ babbler,bay, + evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׁ / ׁ / ׁ
lâshôn / leshônâh
1) tongue
1a) tongue (of men)
1a1) tongue (literal)
1a2) tongue (organ of speech)
1b) language
1c) tongue (of animals)
1d) tongue (of fire)
1e) wedge, bay of sea (tongue-shaped)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H3960
Usage:
This word is used 116 times:
Psalms 66:17: "him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue."
Psalms 68:23: "may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue in the same."
Psalms 71:24: " My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day they are confounded,"
Psalms 73:9: "They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth."
Psalms 78:36: "Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues."
Psalms 109:2: "me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue."
Psalms 119:172: " My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments"
Psalms 120:2: "from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue."
Psalms 120:3: "unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?"
Psalms 126:2: "was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: said they among the heathen,"
Psalms 137:6: "If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; I prefer"
Psalms 139:4: "For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, it altogether."
Psalms 140:3: "They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison their lips."
Psalms 140:11: "Let not an evil speaker an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt"
Proverbs 6:17: "A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed blood,"
Proverbs 6:24: "thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman."
Proverbs 10:20: " The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked"
Proverbs 10:31: "bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue"
Proverbs 12:18: "that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise"
Proverbs 12:19: "forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment."
Proverbs 15:2: " The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools foolishness."
Proverbs 15:4: "A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach"
Proverbs 16:1: "of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD."
Proverbs 17:4: "to a naughty tongue."
Proverbs 17:20: "no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief."
Proverbs 18:21: "Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat"
Proverbs 21:6: "The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro death."
Proverbs 21:23: "Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles."
Proverbs 25:15: "is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue the bone."
Proverbs 25:23: "so doth an angry countenance tongue."
Proverbs 26:28: "A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth ruin."
Proverbs 28:23: "shall find more favor than he that flattereth with the tongue."
Proverbs 31:26: "her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law"
Ecclesiastes 10:11: "will bite without enchantment; and a babbler and a babbler better."
Song of Solomon 4:11: "honey and milk thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon."
Isaiah 3:8: "and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke"
Isaiah 11:15: "And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; wind"
Isaiah 28:11: "with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak this people."
Isaiah 30:27: "thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:"
Isaiah 32:4: "also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers to speak plainly."
Isaiah 33:19: "speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand."
Isaiah 35:6: "shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb for in the wilderness"
Isaiah 41:17: "seek water, and there is none, and their tongue for thirst, I the LORD"
Isaiah 45:23: "unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear."
Isaiah 50:4: "The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know"
Isaiah 54:17: "that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment"
Isaiah 57:4: "make ye a wide and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression,"
Isaiah 59:3: "have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness."
Isaiah 66:18: "nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory."
Jeremiah 5:15: "it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not,"
