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Exodus 2:3

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Masoretic Text 1524

H3808 not ולא

H3201 And when she could יכלה

H5750 longer עוד

H6845 hide הצפינו

H3947 him she took ותקח

H8392 for him an ark לו תבת

H1573 of bulrushes גמא

H2560 and daubed ותחמרה

H2564 it with slime בחמר

H2203 and with pitch ובזפת

H7760 and put ותשׂם

H853 בה את

H3206 the child הילד

H7760 therein and she laid ותשׂם

H5488 it in the flags בסוף

H5921 by על

H8193 the river's brink שׂפת

H2975 היאר׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

And

when

she

H3201 could

H3808 not

H5750 longer

H6845 hide

him

she

H3947 took

for

him

H8392 ark

H1573 bulrushes

and

H2560 daubed

with

H2564 slime

and

with

H2203 pitch

and

H7760 put

the

H3206 child

therein

and

she

H7760 laid

the

H5488 flags

H5921 by

the

river's

H8193 brink

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