Words the Bible translates as lip
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- pehפֶּהthe mouth: the opening in the face used to eat and drink and above all to speak, and so, by a natural step, the speech, words, or command that come out of it
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- the mouth of a thing: the opening of a well, sack, cave, or pit, the edge of a sword that devours, and the reach from one end of a place to the other
- a fixed relating phrase in which the word stops meaning a body part: in proportion to, or at the command of
- a measured portion or share, above all the double portion that names the firstborn's part of an inheritance
- cheilosχεῖλοςthe lips, and by extension the words that come out of them: what a person actually says out loud
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- the outer edge or rim of something, used in the New Testament for the shore where the sea meets the land
- 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
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