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Lexicon :: Strong's H8193 - śāp̄â

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שָׂפָה
Transliteration
śāp̄â
Pronunciation
saw-faw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from סָפָה (H5595) or שָׁפָה (H8192) through the idea of termination (compare סוֹף (H5490))
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2278a

Strong’s Definitions

שָׂפָה sâphâh, saw-faw'; or (in dual and plural) שֶׂפֶת sepheth; probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.):—band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 176x

The KJV translates Strong's H8193 in the following manner: lip (112x), bank (10x), brim (8x), edge (8x), language (7x), speech (6x), shore (6x), brink (5x), border (3x), side (3x), prating (2x), vain (2x), miscellaneous (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 176x
The KJV translates Strong's H8193 in the following manner: lip (112x), bank (10x), brim (8x), edge (8x), language (7x), speech (6x), shore (6x), brink (5x), border (3x), side (3x), prating (2x), vain (2x), miscellaneous (4x).

  1. lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding

    1. lip (as body part)

    2. language

    3. edge, shore, bank (of cup, sea, river, etc)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׂפָה sâphâh, saw-faw'; or (in dual and plural) שֶׂפֶת sepheth; probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.):—band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
STRONGS H8193: Abbreviations
שָׂפָה 176 noun feminine [masculine Exodus 28:32, edge, compare AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 76], lip, speech, edge; — absolute שׂ׳ Genesis 11:1 +, construct שְׂפַת Genesis 11:7 +; suffix שְׂפָתוֺ 1 Kings 7:23 +, etc.; oftener dual שְׂפָתַיִם Isaiah 6:5 +, construct שִׂפְתֵי Psalm 12:4 +; suffix שְׂפָתַי Jeremiah 17:16 +, suffix 3rd person masculine plural שְׂפָתֵימוֺ Psalm 59:13; Psalm 140:4; Psalm 140:10, etc.; plural (in poetry and late) construct שִׂפְתוֺת Ecclesiastes 10:12, suffix שִׂפְתוֺתֶיךָ etc. Psalm 45:3; Psalm 59:8; Isaiah 59:3; Songs 4:3, 11; Songs 5:13; —
1. lip:
a. usually (approximately + 108 times) human organ of speech (often || פֶּה, לָשׁוֺן rarely [only late poetry] חֵךְ : + 10 times Job; + 25 times Psalms; + 45 times Proverbs):
(1) Isaiah 29:13; Leviticus 5:4 (P), Job 13:6; Malachi 2:6; Psalm 12:5; Proverbs 5:3 +; דַּל שׂ׳ Psalm 141:3 (see דָּל); אִישׁ שׂ׳ Job 11:2 = a talker, אֱוִיל שׂ׳ Proverbs 10:8 — Proverbs 10:10 (MT; but see Toy); טְמֵא שְׂפָתַיִם Isaiah 6:5 (twice in verse) compare Isaiah 6:7; Daniel 10:16; עֲרַל שׂ׳ Exodus 6:12, 30 (P; unskilled in speech); עִקֵּשׁ שׂ׳ Exodus 19:1; שׂ׳ פֹּתֶה Exodus 20:19 see [פָּתָה]; מוֺצָא שׂ׳ i.e. utterance, Deuteronomy 23:24; Jeremiah 17:16; Numbers 30:13 (P), Psalm 89:35, רוּחַ שׂ׳ Isaiah 11:4 (of Messianic king), דְּבַר שׂ׳ Psalm 59:13; Proverbs 14:23 +, = mere, empty, word 2 Kings 18:20 = Isaiah 36:5; תְּבוּאַת שׂ׳ Proverbs 18:20, נוב שׂ׳ Isaiah 57:19 (thanksgiving), compare Hosea 14:3 (Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version and most פְּדִי for פָּרִים); of flattery, חֵלֶק שׂ׳ Proverbs 7:21, שְׂפַת חֲלָקוֺת Psalm 12:3; Psalm 12:4; compare שִׂפְתֵי מִרְמָה Psalm 17:1, שֶׁקֶר שׂ׳ Psalm 31:9 + 4 times, שְׂפַת אָוֶן Proverbs 17:4; poison beneath (compare לָשׁוֺן) Psalm 140:4 (figurative); שׂ׳ פֶּשַׁע Proverbs 12:13; לְזוּת שׂ׳ Proverbs 4:24; אֱמֶת שׂ׳ Proverbs 12:19, יָ֑תֶר שׂ׳ Proverbs 17:7, צֶדֶק שׂ׳ Proverbs 16:13, דַּעַת שׂ׳ Proverbs 14:7; Proverbs 20:15; חֵן שׂ׳ Proverbs 22:11; שָׂפָה בְרוּרָה Zephaniah 3:9; רְנָנוֺת שׂ׳ Psalm 63:5 i.e. lips that shout for joy; with verbs: שׂ׳ פָּתַח (to speak) Job 11:5; Job 30:20 (Gi Job 30:21), compare Psalm 51:17, מִפְתַּח שׂ׳ Proverbs 8:6; שׂ׳ פָּשַׁק Proverbs 13:3 i.e. prate; מָֽלְאוּ זַעַם שׂ׳ Isaiah 30:27; שׂ׳ subject of דִּבֶּר Isaiah 59:3; Proverbs 24:2; נָשָׂא עַלשֿׂ׳ Psalm 16:14 ; קָרַץ שׂ׳ Proverbs 16:30 = backbite; אָטַם שׂ׳ Proverbs 17:28 —חָשַׂךְ שׂ׳ Proverbs 10:19, כָּלָא שׂ׳ Psalm 40:10.
† (2) lips moving in speech, with נוּעַ 1 Samuel 1:13, נִיד Job 16:5.
† (3) transition to meaning speech, עָלָה עַלשְֿׂפַת לָשׁוֺן Ezekiel 36:3; = ability to speak Job 12:20.
†b. organ of laughter Job 8:21.
†c. of insulting grimace הִפְטִיר בְּשׂ׳ Psalm 22:8.
†d. quivering in terror Habakkuk 3:16.
†e. feature of beauty Songs 4:3 (scarlet).
f. place of bridle 2 Kings 19:28 = Isaiah 37:29 (see מֶתֶג).
†g. receiving kiss Proverbs 24:26 compare Songs 4:11 and (in figurative) Songs 7:10.
†h. of divine speech, מִצְוַת שׂ׳ Job 23:12, דְּבַר שׂ׳ Psalm 17:4.
†2. language (see לָשׁוֺן), Genesis 11:1, 6, 7 (twice in verse); Genesis 11:9; Psalm 81:6; עַם עִמְקֵי שׂ׳ Ezekiel 3:5, 6; Isaiah 33:19, לַעֲגֵי שׂ׳ Isaiah 28:11; שְׂפַת כְּנַעַן Isaiah 19:18 (i.e. Hebrew).
†3. edge: shore of sea Genesis 22:17 (J) + 7 times; bank of river Genesis 41:3, 17 (E) + 5 times, of wady (נַחַל) Deuteronomy 2:36 + 7 times; lip (bank) of אָבֵל מְחוֺלָה Judges 7:22 compare GASmG 400; brim of vessel 1 Kings 7:23 (twice in verse) + 7 times; edge of altar Ezekiel 43:13; of curtains (in pairs) Exodus 26:4 (twice in verse) (P) + 6 times; of חשֶׁן, toward ephod Exodus 28:26 = Exodus 39:19 (P); of round opening in robe (יִהְיֶה) לְפִיו שׂ׳ Exodus 28:32 = Exodus 39:23 (P).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

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

Exodus

6:12; 6:30; 19:1; 20:19; 26:4; 28:26; 28:32; 28:32; 39:19; 39:23

Leviticus

5:4

Numbers

30:13

Deuteronomy

2:36; 23:24

Judges

7:22

1 Samuel

1:13

1 Kings

7:23; 7:23

2 Kings

18:20; 19:28

Job

8:21; 11:2; 11:5; 12:20; 13:6; 16:5; 23:12; 30:20; 30:21

Psalms

12:3; 12:4; 12:4; 12:5; 17:1; 17:4; 22:8; 31:9; 40:10; 45:3; 51:17; 59:8; 59:13; 59:13; 63:5; 81:6; 89:35; 140:4; 140:4; 140:10; 141:3

Proverbs

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

Ecclesiastes

10:12

Song of Songs

4:3; 4:3; 4:11; 4:11; 5:13; 7:10

Isaiah

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

Jeremiah

17:16; 17:16

Ezekiel

3:5; 3:6; 36:3; 43:13

Daniel

10:16

Hosea

14:3

Habakkuk

3:16

Zephaniah

3:9

Malachi

2:6

H8193

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Strong's Number H8193 matches the Hebrew שָׂפָה (śāp̄â),
which occurs 177 times in 164 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 11:1–Job 11:5)

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Now the whole earth [fn]spoke one language and used the same words (vocabulary).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6 - And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one [unified] people, and they all have the same language. This is only the beginning of what they will do [in rebellion against Me], and now no evil thing they imagine they can do will be impossible for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - “Come, let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) go down and there confuse and mix up their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:9 - Therefore the name of the city was [fn]Babel—because there the LORD confused the language of the entire earth; and from that place the LORD scattered and dispersed them over the surface of all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of [fn]their enemies [by conquering them].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 - Then behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the Nile, ugly and gaunt and raw-boned, and stood by the fat cows on the bank of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream, I was standing on the bank of the Nile;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - When she could no longer hide him, she got him a basket (chest) made of papyrus reeds and covered it with tar and pitch [making it waterproof]. Then she put the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:12 - But Moses said to the LORD, “Look, [my own people] the Israelites have not listened to me; so how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am [fn]unskilled and inept in speech?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:30 - But Moses said before the LORD, “Look, I am [fn]unskilled and inept in speech; how then will Pharaoh listen to me and pay attention to what I say?”

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

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The LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians [lying] dead on the [fn]seashore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:4 - “You shall make loops of blue on the outer edge of the last curtain in the first set, and likewise in the second set.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:10 - “Make fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:26 - “You shall make two gold rings and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the ephod.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:32 - “There shall be an opening at its top in the center [for the head], with a binding of woven work around the opening, like the opening in a coat of armor, so that it will not tear or fray.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:11 - He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set; he also did this on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second set.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:17 - He made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:19 - They made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inner edge which was next to the ephod.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:23 - there was an opening [for the head] in the middle of the robe, like the opening in a coat of armor, with a hem around it, so that it would not be frayed or torn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - ‘Or if anyone swears [an oath] thoughtlessly or impulsively [fn]aloud that he will do either evil or good, in whatever manner a person may speak thoughtlessly or impulsively with an oath, but he is unaware of it, when he recognizes it, he will be guilty in one of these.

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“But if she marries while under her vows or if she has bound herself by a rash statement,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:8 - “But if her husband disapproves of her [making her vow or pledge] on the day that he hears of it, then he shall annul her vow which she is under and the rash statement of her lips by which she bound herself; and the LORD will forgive her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:12 - “But if her husband absolutely annuls them on the day he heard them, then whatever proceeds from her lips concerning her vows or concerning her pledge shall not stand. Her husband has annulled them, and the LORD will forgive her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:36 - “From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Arnon Valley, and from the city which is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was no city [whose wall was] too high and too strong for us; the LORD our God handed over everything to us.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23 - “You shall be careful to perform that [vow] which passes your lips, just as you have made a voluntary vow to the LORD your God, just as you have promised with your own words (mouth).

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:4 - They went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people as the sand on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:2 - Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the [river] Arnon, both the middle of the valley and half of Gilead, and as far as the brook Jabbok, [which is] the border of the sons of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:9 - from Aroer on the edge of the valley of the [river] Arnon, and the city in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba, as far as Dibon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:16 - Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the [river] Arnon, and the city which is in the middle of the valley and all the plain by Medeba;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying [camped] in the valley, as countless as locusts; and their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand on the seashore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22 - When Gideon’s men blew the three hundred trumpets, the LORD set the sword of one [Midianite] against another even throughout the whole army; and the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:13 - Hannah was speaking in her heart (mind); only her lips were moving, and her voice was not heard, so Eli [fn]thought she was drunk.

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Now the Philistines gathered to fight against Israel, 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen, and troops in multitude, like sand on the seashore. They came up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

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Now God gave Solomon [exceptional] wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand of the seashore.

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Now he made the Sea (basin) of cast metal, ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, five cubits high and thirty cubits in circumference.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:24 - Under its brim were gourds encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the Sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast in one piece with it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26 - It was a hand width thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand [fn]baths.

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King Solomon built a fleet of ships in Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea (Sea of Reeds), in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:13 - He picked up the mantle of Elijah that fell off him, and went back and stood by the bank of the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:20 - “You say (but they are only empty words) ‘I have counsel and strength for the war.’ Now on whom do you rely, that you have rebelled against me?

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‘Because of your raging against Me,

And because your arrogance and complacency have come up to My ears,

I will put My hook in your nose,

And My bridle in your lips,

And I will turn you back [to Assyria] by the way that you came.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:2 - He also made the Sea [that is, the large basin used for ceremonial washing] of cast metal, ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and five cubits in height, and its circumference was thirty cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5 - It was a handbreadth (the width of the four fingers) thick; its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold [fn]3,000 baths (measures).

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Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the shore of the [Red] Sea in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:10 - But he said to her, “You speak as one of the [spiritually] foolish women speaks [ignorant and oblivious to God’s will]. Shall we indeed accept [only] good from God and not [also] accept adversity and disaster?” In [spite of] all this Job did not sin with [words from] his lips.

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“He will yet fill your mouth with laughter

And your lips with joyful shouting [if you are found blameless].

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“Shall a multitude of words not be answered?

And should a talkative man [making such a long-winded defense] be acquitted?

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“But oh, that God would speak,

And open His lips [to speak] against you,


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