Words the Bible translates as language
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- glōssaγλῶσσαa language: the tongue spoken by a particular people or nation
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- the tongue: the bodily organ in the mouth, and by extension the speech it produces
- a tongue-shaped object: something whose form resembles a tongue, here a flame
- the gift of tongues: Spirit-prompted speech in the early church, spoken in a tongue the speaker has not learned
- saphahשָׂפָהlip: the fleshy rim of the mouth, and by extension the speech and the language it produces
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- edge: the outer rim, border, bank, or shore where something ends
- lashonלָשׁוֹןa language: the tongue a people speaks, and so the people marked off by it
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- the tongue: the organ in the mouth, and by extension the speech it produces
- a tongue: something shaped like a tongue, such as a wedge of metal, an inlet of the sea, or a flame
- dialektosδιάλεκτοςlanguage: the spoken tongue of a particular nation or people
- lishshanלִשָּׁןa language, and so the people who speak it: one of the language groups an empire counts among its subjects
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