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Job 23:12

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Masoretic Text 1524

H4687 from the commandment מצות

H8193 of his lips שׂפתיו

H3808 Neither ולא

H4185 have I gone back אמישׁ

H2706 מחקי

H6845 I have esteemed צפנתי

H561 the words אמרי

H6310 of his mouth פיו׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H3808 Neither

have

gone

H4185 back

from

the

H4687 commandment

his

H8193 lips

have

H6845 esteemed

the

H561 words

his

H6310 mouth

than

H4480 necessary

food

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