- Original: שׂפת שׂפה
- Transliteration: Saphah
- Phonetic: saw-faw'
- Definition: 
1. lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding 
a. lip (as body part) 
b. language 
c. edge, shore, bank (of cup, sea, river, etc) 
- Origin: probably from  
H5595   or  
H8192   through the idea of termination (compare  
H5490  )
- TWOT entry: 2278a
- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine 
- Strong's: (The second form is in dual and plural); 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. 
Total KJV Occurrences: 176 
 • band, 1
 
Exodus 39:23 
 
 • bank, 10
 
Genesis 41:17; 
Deuteronomy 4:48; 
Joshua 12:2; 
Joshua 13:9; 
Joshua 13:16; 
2 Kings 2:13; 
Ezekiel 47:7; 
Ezekiel 47:12; 
Daniel 12:5(2) 
 
 • binding, 1
 
Exodus 28:32 
 
 • border, 3
 
Exodus 28:26; 
Exodus 39:19; 
Judges 7:22 
 
 • brim, 8
 
1 Kings 7:23; 
1 Kings 7:24; 
1 Kings 7:26(2); 
2 Chronicles 4:2(2); 
2 Chronicles 4:5(2) 
 
 • brink, 5
 
Genesis 41:3; 
Exodus 2:3; 
Exodus 7:15; 
Deuteronomy 2:36; 
Ezekiel 47:6 
 
 • edge, 8
 
Exodus 26:4(2); 
Exodus 26:10(2); 
Exodus 36:11; 
Exodus 36:17(2); 
Ezekiel 43:13 
 
 • language, 7
 
Genesis 11:1; 
Genesis 11:6; 
Genesis 11:7; 
Genesis 11:9; 
Psalm 81:5; 
Isaiah 19:18; 
Zephaniah 3:9 
 
 • lip, 2
 
Psalm 22:7; 
Proverbs 12:19 
 
 • lips, 110
 
Exodus 6:12; 
Exodus 6:30; 
Leviticus 5:4; 
Numbers 30:6; 
Numbers 30:8; 
Numbers 30:12; 
Deuteronomy 23:23; 
1 Samuel 1:13; 
2 Kings 19:28; 
Job 2:10; 
Job 8:21; 
Job 11:5; 
Job 13:6; 
Job 15:6; 
Job 16:5; 
Job 23:12; 
Job 27:4; 
Job 32:20; 
Job 33:3; 
Psalm 12:2; 
Psalm 12:3; 
Psalm 12:4; 
Psalm 16:4; 
Psalm 17:1; 
Psalm 17:4; 
Psalm 21:2; 
Psalm 31:18; 
Psalm 34:13; 
Psalm 40:9; 
Psalm 45:2; 
Psalm 51:15; 
Psalm 59:7; 
Psalm 59:12; 
Psalm 63:3; 
Psalm 63:5; 
Psalm 66:14; 
Psalm 71:23; 
Psalm 89:34; 
Psalm 106:33; 
Psalm 119:13; 
Psalm 119:171; 
Psalm 120:2; 
Psalm 140:3; 
Psalm 140:9; 
Psalm 141:3; 
Proverbs 4:24; 
Proverbs 5:2; 
Proverbs 5:3; 
Proverbs 7:21; 
Proverbs 8:6; 
Proverbs 8:7; 
Proverbs 10:13; 
Proverbs 10:18; 
Proverbs 10:19; 
Proverbs 10:21; 
Proverbs 10:32; 
Proverbs 12:13; 
Proverbs 12:22; 
Proverbs 13:3; 
Proverbs 14:3; 
Proverbs 14:7; 
Proverbs 14:23; 
Proverbs 15:7; 
Proverbs 16:10; 
Proverbs 16:13; 
Proverbs 16:21; 
Proverbs 16:23; 
Proverbs 16:27; 
Proverbs 16:30; 
Proverbs 17:4; 
Proverbs 17:7; 
Proverbs 17:28; 
Proverbs 18:6; 
Proverbs 18:7; 
Proverbs 18:20; 
Proverbs 19:1; 
Proverbs 20:15; 
Proverbs 20:19; 
Proverbs 22:11; 
Proverbs 22:18; 
Proverbs 23:16; 
Proverbs 24:2; 
Proverbs 24:26; 
Proverbs 24:28; 
Proverbs 26:23; 
Proverbs 26:24; 
Proverbs 27:2; 
Ecclesiastes 10:12; 
Song of Songs 4:3; 
Song of Songs 4:11; 
Song of Songs 5:13; 
Song of Songs 7:9; 
Isaiah 6:5(2); 
Isaiah 6:7; 
Isaiah 11:4; 
Isaiah 28:11; 
Isaiah 29:13; 
Isaiah 30:27; 
Isaiah 37:29; 
Isaiah 57:19; 
Isaiah 59:3; 
Jeremiah 17:16; 
Lamentations 3:62; 
Ezekiel 36:3; 
Daniel 10:16; 
Hosea 14:2; 
Habakkuk 3:16; 
Malachi 2:6; 
Malachi 2:7 
 
 • other, 1
 
1 Kings 7:23 
 
 • prating, 2
 
Proverbs 10:8; 
Proverbs 10:10 
 
 • shore, 6
 
Genesis 22:17; 
Exodus 14:30; 
Joshua 11:4; 
1 Samuel 13:5; 
1 Kings 4:29; 
1 Kings 9:26 
 
 • side, 3
 
Exodus 36:11; 
Judges 7:12; 
2 Chronicles 8:17 
 
 • speech, 6
 
Genesis 11:7; 
Job 12:20; 
Proverbs 17:7; 
Isaiah 33:19; 
Ezekiel 3:5; 
Ezekiel 3:6 
 
 • talk, 1
 
Job 11:2 
 
 • vain, 2
 
2 Kings 18:20; 
Isaiah 36:5 
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