H8193 - שָׂפָה (sâphâh)

H8193 שָׂפָה (sâphâh) saw-faw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

lips

Strong's Definition

the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)

Derivation: or (in dual and plural) שֶׂפֶת; probably from H5595 (סָפָה) or H8192 (שָׁפָה) through the idea of termination (compare H5490 (סוֹף));

KJV Usage: band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.

TWOT Reference: 2278a

Outline of Biblical Usage

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)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1100 G3056 G3313 G4750 G5456 G5491

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

: lips/mouth 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)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

שֶׂפֶת / שָׂפָה śâphâh / śepheth BDB Definition: 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 A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490) Same Word by TWOT Number: 2278a Total KJV Occurrences: 173

Bible Occurrences (160)

11:1 11:6 11:7 11:9 22:17 41:3 41:17

2:3 6:12 6:30 7:15 14:30 26:4 26:10 28:26 28:32 36:11 36:17 39:19 39:23

5:4

30:6 30:8 30:12

2:36 4:48 23:23

11:4 12:2 13:9 13:16

7:12 7:22

1:13 13:5

4:29 7:23 7:24 7:26 9:26

2:13 18:20 19:28

4:2 4:5 8:17

2:10 8:21 11:2 11:5 12:20 13:6 15:6 16:5 23:12 27:4 32:20 33:3

12:2 12:3 12:4 16:4 17:1 17:4 21:2 22:7 31:18 34:13 40:9 45:2 51:15 59:7 59:12 63:3 63:5 66:14 71:23 81:5 89:34 106:33 119:13 119:171 120:2 140:3 140:9 141:3

4:24 5:2 5:3 7:21 8:6 8:7 10:8 10:10 10:13 10:18 10:19 10:21 10:32 12:13 12:19 12:22 13:3 14:3 14:7 14:23 15:7 16:10 16:13 16:21 16:23 16:27 16:30 17:4 17:7 17:28 18:6 18:7 18:20 19:1 20:15 20:19 22:11 22:18 23:16 24:2 24:26 24:28 26:23 26:24 27:2

10:12

6:5 6:7 11:4 19:18 28:11 29:13 30:27 33:19 36:5 37:29 57:19 59:3

17:16

3:62

3:5 3:6 36:3 43:13 47:6 47:7 47:12

10:16 12:5

14:2

3:16

3:9

2:6 2:7

Genesis 11:1

Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

Genesis 11:6

And the LORD said, If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same... language, then nothing... they devise... will be beyond them.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let Us go down... and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.

Genesis 11:9

That is why... it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

Genesis 22:17

I will surely bless you..., and I will multiply... your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore.... Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 41:3

After them, seven other cows, sickly... and thin..., came up from the Nile and stood beside the [well-fed] cows on the bank of the river.

Genesis 41:17

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: In my dream... I was standing on the bank of the Nile,

Exodus 2:3

But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in [the basket] and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.