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:
Isaiah 19:18: "in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts;"
Isaiah 28:11: "For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this"
Isaiah 29:13: "as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far"
Isaiah 30:27: "burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue"
Isaiah 33:19: "people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue,"
Isaiah 36:5: "I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now"
Isaiah 37:29: "my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest."
Isaiah 57:19: "I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith"
Isaiah 59:3: "with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered"
Jeremiah 17:16: "thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before"
Lamentations 3:62: " The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day."
Ezekiel 3:5: "to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house"
Ezekiel 3:6: "many people of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words"
Ezekiel 36:3: "that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers,"
Ezekiel 43:13: "a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this"
Ezekiel 47:6: "hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river."
Ezekiel 47:7: "Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees"
Ezekiel 47:12: "And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side,"
Daniel 10:16: "of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spoke,"
Daniel 12:5: "two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank"
Daniel 12:5: "of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river."
Hosea 14:2: "us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips."
Habakkuk 3:16: "When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered"
Zephaniah 3:9: "to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD,"
Malachi 2:6: "and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity,"
Malachi 2:7: "For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth:"
