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Lexicon :: Strong's G5491 - cheilos

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χεῖλος
Transliteration
cheilos (Key)
Pronunciation
khi'-los
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a form of the same as χάσμα (G5490)
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Strong’s Definitions

χεῖλος cheîlos, khi'-los; from a form of the same as G5490; a lip (as a pouring place); figuratively, a margin (of water):—lip, shore.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G5491 in the following manner: lip (6x), shore (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G5491 in the following manner: lip (6x), shore (1x).

  1. a lip, of the speaking mouth

  2. metaph. the sea shore

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
χεῖλος cheîlos, khi'-los; from a form of the same as G5490; a lip (as a pouring place); figuratively, a margin (of water):—lip, shore.
STRONGS G5491:
χεῖλος, χείλους, τό, genitive plural in the uncontracted form χειλέων (Hebrews 13:15; see ὄρος) (χέω equivalent to ΧΑΩ, χαίνω), from Homer down, the Sept. for שָׂפָה, a lip;
a. in the N. T. of the speaking mouth (cf. Winer's Grammar, 32): Matthew 15:8; Mark vil. 6; Romans 3:13; 1 Corinthians 14:21; Hebrews 13:15 (on which see καρπός, 2 c.); 1 Peter 3:10.
b. metaphorically: χεῖλος τῆς θαλάσσης, the seashore, Hebrews 11:12 (Genesis 22:17; Exodus 7:15; Exodus 14:30, etc.; of the shore of a lake, Josephus, b. j. 3, 10, 7; of the banks of rivers, Herodotus 2 (70). 94; (Aristotle, de mirab. aud. 46; 150; cf. hist. an. 6, 16, p. 570a, 22); Polybius 3, 14, 6; (cf. Winer's Grammar, pp. 18, 30)).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
22:17
Exodus
7:15; 14:30
Matthew
15:8
Romans
3:13
1 Corinthians
14:21
Hebrews
11:12; 13:15; 13:15
1 Peter
3:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5491 matches the Greek χεῖλος (cheilos),
which occurs 150 times in 140 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 11:1–Psa 21:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:1 - Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6 - And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:9 - Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused[fn] the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his[fn] enemies,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 - And behold, seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15 - Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:30 - Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:4 - And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set. Likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:10 - You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - or if anyone utters with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that people swear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and he realizes his guilt in any of these;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:6 - “If she marries a husband, while under her vows or any thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:12 - But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself shall not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the LORD will forgive her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:36

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:36 - From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The LORD our God gave all into our hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:12 - “When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:48 - from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, as far as Mount Sirion[fn] (that is, Hermon),

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23 - You shall be careful to do what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:9 - from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:15 - the princes of Issachar came with Deborah,
and Issachar faithful to Barak;
into the valley they rushed at his heels.
Among the clans of Reuben
there were great searchings of heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22 - When they blew the 300 trumpets, the LORD set every man’s sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah,[fn] as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:13 - Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:23 - Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:24 - Under its brim were gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26 - Its thickness was a handbreadth,[fn] and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:26 - King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:13 - And he took up the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:33 - from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the Valley of the Arnon, that is, Gilead and Bashan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:20 - Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:28 - Because you have raged against me
and your complacency has come into my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and I will turn you back on the way
by which you came.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5 - Its thickness was a handbreadth.[fn] And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held 3,000 baths.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:10 - But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?”[fn] In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:21 - He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,
and your lips with shouting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:5 - But oh, that God would speak
and open his lips to you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:20 - He deprives of speech those who are trusted
and takes away the discernment of the elders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:6 - Hear now my argument
and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:6 - Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
your own lips testify against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:5 - I could strengthen you with my mouth,
and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:4 - my lips will not speak falsehood,
and my tongue will not utter deceit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:20 - I must speak, that I may find relief;
I must open my lips and answer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:3 - My words declare the uprightness of my heart,
and what my lips know they speak sincerely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:2 - Can you put a rope in his nose
or pierce his jaw with a hook?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:2 - Everyone utters lies to his neighbor;
with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:3 - May the LORD cut off all flattering lips,
the tongue that makes great boasts,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:4 - those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,
our lips are with us; who is master over us?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3 - They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:4 - The sorrows of those who run after[fn] another god shall multiply;
their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out
or take their names on my lips.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:1 - A Prayer of David.
Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry!
Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:4 - With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips
I have avoided the ways of the violent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:2 - You have given him his heart’s desire
and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

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2. LOAD PAGE 2 Psa 22:7–Pro 18:7

3. LOAD PAGE 3 Pro 18:20–Mal 2:7

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