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Lexicon :: Strong's G3047 - lips

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λίψ
Transliteration
lips (Key)
Pronunciation
leeps
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from leibo (to pour a "libation")
mGNT
1x in 1 unique form(s) TR
1x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
46x in 5 unique form(s)
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Strong’s Definitions

λίψ líps, leeps; probably from λείβω leíbō (to pour a "libation"); the south(- west) wind (as bringing rain, i.e. (by extension) the south quarter):—southwest.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G3047 in the following manner: south west (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G3047 in the following manner: south west (1x).

  1. the south west wind

  2. the quarter of the heavens whence the south west wind blows

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
λίψ líps, leeps; probably from λείβω leíbō (to pour a "libation"); the south(- west) wind (as bringing rain, i.e. (by extension) the south quarter):—southwest.
STRONGS G3047:
λίψ, λιβός, ὁ (from λείβω (to pour forth), because it brings moisture);
1. the southwest wind: Herodotus 2, 25; Polybius 10, 10, 3; others.
2. the quarter of the heavens whence the southwest wind blows: Acts 27:12 (on which see βλέπω, 3 and κατά, II. 1 c.) (Genesis 13:14; Genesis 20:1; Numbers 2:10; Deuteronomy 33:23).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
13:14; 20:1
Numbers
2:10
Deuteronomy
33:23
Acts
27:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3047 matches the Greek λίψ (lips),
which occurs 46 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:62

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62 - Now Isaac had returned from Beer-lahai-roi and was dwelling in the Negeb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:9 - “You shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side the court shall have hangings of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:9 - And he made the court. For the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:10 - “On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their companies, the chief of the people of Reuben being Elizur the son of Shedeur,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:29 - The clans of the sons of Kohath were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:6 - And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and your southern border shall run from the end of the Salt Sea on the east.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:4 - And your border shall turn south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to Zin, and its limit shall be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - And you shall measure, outside the city, on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall belong to them as pastureland for their cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:27 - Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and look at it with your eyes, for you shall not go over this Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:23 - And of Naphtali he said,
“O Naphtali, sated with favor,
and full of the blessing of the LORD,
possess the lake[fn] and the south.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:1 - The allotment for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:2 - And their south boundary ran from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:3 - It goes out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:4 - passes along to Azmon, goes out by the Brook of Egypt, and comes to its end at the sea. This shall be your south boundary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:7 - And the boundary goes up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the valley. And the boundary passes along to the waters of En-shemesh and ends at En-rogel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8 - Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:10 - And the boundary circles west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passes along to the northern shoulder of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and goes down to Beth-shemesh and passes along by Timnah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9 - Then the boundary went down to the brook Kanah. These cities, to the south of the brook, among the cities of Manasseh, belong to Ephraim. Then the boundary of Manasseh goes on the north side of the brook and ends at the sea,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10 - the land to the south being Ephraim’s and that to the north being Manasseh’s, with the sea forming its boundary. On the north Asher is reached, and on the east Issachar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:5 - They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall continue in his territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall continue in their territory on the north.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:13 - From there the boundary passes along southward in the direction of Luz, to the shoulder of Luz (that is, Bethel), then the boundary goes down to Ataroth-addar, on the mountain that lies south of Lower Beth-horon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:14 - Then the boundary goes in another direction, turning on the western side southward from the mountain that lies to the south, opposite Beth-horon, and it ends at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city belonging to the people of Judah. This forms the western side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:15 - And the southern side begins at the outskirts of Kiriath-jearim. And the boundary goes from there to Ephron,[fn] to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:16 - Then the boundary goes down to the border of the mountain that overlooks the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is at the north end of the Valley of Rephaim. And it then goes down the Valley of Hinnom, south of the shoulder of the Jebusites, and downward to En-rogel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:19 - Then the boundary passes on to the north of the shoulder of Beth-hoglah. And the boundary ends at the northern bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this is the southern border.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:8 - together with all the villages around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the Negeb. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Simeon according to their clans.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:18 - And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:30 - This same Hezekiah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:14 - Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into the Fish Gate, and carried it around Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:26 - He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by his power he led out the south wind;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:6 - I will say to the north, Give up,
and to the south, Do not withhold;
bring my sons from afar
and my daughters from the end of the earth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:19 - “On the south side, it shall run from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribah-kadesh, from there along the Brook of Egypt[fn] to the Great Sea. This shall be the south side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 48:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:28 - And adjoining the territory of Gad to the south, the boundary shall run from Tamar to the waters of Meribah-kadesh, from there along the Brook of Egypt[fn] to the Great Sea.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:5 - As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west across the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground. And the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes.
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