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Proverbs 13:3

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Masoretic Text 1524

H5341 He that keepeth נצר

H6310 his mouth פיו

H8104 שׁמר

H5315 his life נפשׁו

H6589 but he that openeth wide פשׂק

H8193 his lips שׂפתיו

H4288 shall have destruction מחתה׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

that

H5341 keepeth

his

H6310 mouth

H5341 keepeth

his

H5315 life

but

that

openeth

H6589 wide

his

H8193 lips

shall

have

H4288 destruction

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