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:
2 Chronicles 4:2: "sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round"
2 Chronicles 4:2: "cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five"
2 Chronicles 4:5: "And the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies;"
2 Chronicles 4:5: "of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received"
2 Chronicles 8:17: "Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom."
Job 2:10: "this did not Job sin with his lips."
Job 8:21: "he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing."
Job 11:2: "be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?"
Job 11:5: "would speak, and open his lips against"
Job 12:20: "He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged."
Job 13:6: "my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips."
Job 15:6: "condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify"
Job 16:5: "you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage"
Job 23:12: "Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary"
Job 27:4: " My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit."
Job 32:20: "I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer."
Job 33:3: "My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly."
Psalms 12:2: "with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak."
Psalms 12:3: "shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:"
Psalms 12:4: "have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord"
Psalms 16:4: "take up their names into my lips."
Psalms 17:1: "unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips."
Psalms 17:4: "Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer."
Psalms 21:2: "and hast not withheld the request of his lips. Selah."
Psalms 22:7: "they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head,"
Psalms 31:18: "Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against"
Psalms 34:13: "Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile."
Psalms 40:9: "lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest."
Psalms 45:2: "than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God"
Psalms 51:15: "O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise."
Psalms 59:7: "they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?"
Psalms 59:12: "For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing"
Psalms 63:3: "thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise"
Psalms 63:5: "and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:"
Psalms 66:14: "Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble."
Psalms 71:23: " My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed."
Psalms 81:5: "the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not."
Psalms 89:34: "nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips."
Psalms 106:33: "his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips."
Psalms 119:13: " With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth."
Psalms 119:171: " My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes."
Psalms 120:2: "my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue."
Psalms 140:3: "adders' poison is under their lips. Selah."
Psalms 140:9: "As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover"
Psalms 141:3: "before my mouth; keep the door of my lips."
Proverbs 4:24: "thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from"
Proverbs 5:2: "That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge."
Proverbs 5:3: "For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:"
Proverbs 7:21: "fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced"
Proverbs 8:6: "I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things."
