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:
Jeremiah 9:3: "And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not for the truth"
Jeremiah 9:5: "speak the truth: their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity."
Jeremiah 9:8: " Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh to"
Jeremiah 18:18: "from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not"
Jeremiah 23:31: "saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith."
Lamentations 4:4: " The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: ask"
Ezekiel 3:5: "speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;"
Ezekiel 3:6: "of a strange speech language, whose words thou canst not understand."
Ezekiel 3:26: " And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not to them a reprover:"
Ezekiel 36:3: "a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy"
Daniel 1:4: "in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans."
Hosea 7:16: "shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land"
Micah 6:12: "and the inhabitants thereof have spoken and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth."
Zephaniah 3:13: "lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they"
Zechariah 8:23: "men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt"
Zechariah 14:12: "upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth."
