G5491Noun, neuter7 times in the New Testament (critical text)Where it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Matthew 15:8χείλεσίν
‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
- Mark 7:6χείλεσίν
Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
- Romans 3:13χείλη
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
- 1 Corinthians 14:21χείλεσιν
It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.”
- Hebrews 11:12χεῖλος
And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
- 1 Peter 3:10χείλη
For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
Abbott-Smith
[in LXX chiefly for שָׂפָה ;]
a lip (as in Heb., of the lip as the organ of speech): Mat.15:8, Mrk.7:6, Rom.3:13, 1Co.14:21, Heb.13:15, 1Pe.3:10" (LXX) . Metaphorical, of things, an edge, brink, etc. (Hom., Hdt., al.): of the seashore, Heb.11:12.†
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Sources: Abbott-Smith’s Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922, public domain) and glosses from STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAGNT (Greek New Testament, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.