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Proverbs 8:6

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Masoretic Text 1524

H8085 Hear שׁמעו

H3588 for כי

H5057 of excellent things נגידים

H1696 I will speak אדבר

H4669 and the opening ומפתח

H8193 of my lips שׂפתי

H4339 מישׁרים׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H8085 Hear

H3588 for

will

H1696 speak

excellent

H5057 things

and

the

H4669 opening

H8193 lips

shall

right

H5057 things

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