H8193 שָׂפָה
sâphâh — the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
KJV: band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore…
Built from סָפָה çâphâh (to scrape) + שָׁפָה shâphâh (to abrade, i.e. bare) + סוֹף çôwph (a termination)
Occurs 175 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שָׂפָה 176 n.f. lip, speech, edge
- 1 lip
- 2 language
- 3 edge: shore of sea; bank of river
Where it occurs
- Genesis 11:1 — The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
- Genesis 11:6 — The LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now…
- Genesis 11:7 — Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
- Genesis 11:9 — Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the…
- Genesis 22:17 — that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the…
- Genesis 41:3 — Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the…
- Genesis 41:17 — Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river;
- Exodus 2:3 — When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put…
- Exodus 6:12 — Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh…
- Exodus 6:30 — Moses said before the LORD, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”