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Proverbs 27:2

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Masoretic Text 1524

H1984 praise יהללך

H2114 Let another man זר

H3808 thee and not ולא

H6310 thine own mouth פיך

H5237 a stranger נכרי

H408 ואל

H8193 thine own lips שׂפתיך׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

Let

another

H2114 man

H1984 praise

thee

and

H3808 not

thine

own

H6310 mouth

H5237 stranger

and

H3808 not

thine

own

H8193 lips

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