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Genesis 11:7

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Masoretic Text 1524

H3051 Go to הבה

H3381 let us go down נרדה

H1101 confound ונבלה

H8033 and there שׁם

H8193 their language שׂפתם

H834 that אשׁר

H3808 they may not לא

H8085 understand ישׁמעו

H582 אישׁ

H8193 another's speech שׂפת

H7453 רעהו׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H3051 to

let

H3381 down

and

H8033 there

H1101 confound

their

H8193 language

H834 that

they

may

H3808 not

H8085 understand

H376 one

another's

H8193 speech

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H8193

Hebrew: שָׂפָה

Transliteration: sâphâh

Pronunciation: saw-faw'

Part of Speech: Noun Feminine

Bible Usage: {band} {bank} {binding} {border} {brim} {brink} {edge} {language} {lip} {prating} ([sea-]) {shore} {side} {speech} {talk} [vain] words.

Definition:

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.)

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)

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906