# H8193 שָׂפָה

שָׂפָה (sâphâh), Strong’s H8193: 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…

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*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](https://besorah.bible/word/H5595) (to scrape) + [שָׁפָה shâphâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H8192) (to abrade, i.e. bare) + [סוֹף çôwph](https://besorah.bible/word/H5490) (a termination)

Occurs 175 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=1) — The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
- [Genesis 11:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=7) — Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
- [Genesis 11:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=9) — Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the…
- [Genesis 22:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=17) — Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river;
- [Exodus 2:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/6?v=12) — Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh…
- [Exodus 6:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/6?v=30) — Moses said before the LORD, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”