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Proverbs 24:2

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Masoretic Text 1524

H3588 For כי

H7701 destruction שׁד

H1897 studieth יהגה

H3820 their heart לבם

H5999 of mischief ועמל

H8193 and their lips שׂפתיהם

H1696 talk תדברנה׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H3588 For

their

H3820 heart

H1897 studieth

H7701 destruction

and

their

H8193 lips

H1696 talk

H5999 mischief

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