שָׂפָה H8193

Home gloss: lip
Instead of (KJV / RSV): language / speech
Note: The lip, the speech it makes, the edge of a thing (22:17). Kept apart from לָשׁוֹן "tongue." See the note at 11:1
Rulings: 39

Occurrences (5)

11:1 And all the land was one lip, and words that were one.
11:6 And said, "Look, one people and one lip for all of them, and this they have begun to do; and now nothing will be fenced off from them that they scheme to do.
11:7 Up, let us go down and mix there their lip, so that they will not hear, a man the lip of his fellow."
11:7 Up, let us go down and mix there their lip, so that they will not hear, a man the lip of his fellow."
11:9 Thus he called its name Babylon, for there made babble the lip of all the land; and from there scattered them over the face of all the land.