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Verses
36 results- VersePsalms 19:3Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard,
- VerseGenesis 11:1Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
- VerseNehemiah 13:24Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah.
- VerseJob 15:5For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- VerseActs 2:8How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language?
Manuscripts
1 resultWords (Strong's)
- WordH8193 שָׂפָה · sâphâh (Hebrew)the lip (as a natural boundary). The Hebrew word stands 176 times in the original text.
- WordH1697 דָּבָר · dâbâr (Hebrew)a word. The Hebrew word stands 1,440 times in the original text.
- WordH3956 לָשׁוֹן · lâshôwn (Hebrew)the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water). The Hebrew word stands 117…
- WordH3961 לִשָּׁן · lishshân (Hebrew)speech, i.e. a nation. The Hebrew word stands 7 times in the original text.
- WordG1258 διάλεκτος · diálektos (Greek)a (mode of) discourse, i.e. "dialect". The Greek word stands 6 times in the original text.
Themes
7 results- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeJusticeScripture's justice vocabulary runs on two paired Hebrew terms: *mishpat* (H4941), the right verdict rendered at the city gate — a legal, courtroom word — and *tsedaqah*…
- ThemeCovenantIn Scripture a covenant is not a vague feeling. It is a formal, oath-bound promise between named parties, with a stated promise and usually a visible sign to mark it. (The…
- ThemeCreationScripture opens with a claim, not an argument: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1:1). The Genesis account moves in an ordered six-day sequence…
- ThemeHolinessHoliness begins as a claim about God before it becomes a summons to His people. The Hebrew *qadosh* carries a double sense — "set apart" and "whole, intact" — and Leviticus…
Topics
1 resultProphecies
3 results- ProphecyHebrew Language RevivedA pure language would be restored to God's people.
- ProphecyHebrew Language PreservedZephaniah predicted God would restore a 'pure language' to His people for unified worship. Some interpreters connect this to the revival of Hebrew.
- ProphecySidon Continues but Tyre DestroyedUnlike Tyre (which was condemned to utter destruction), Sidon was predicted to suffer judgment—pestilence, blood, sword—but not complete annihilation. Ezekiel's language for…
Apologetics
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5 results- StudyHebrew Roots: the language of the Old TestamentHow the Hebrew alphabet works, why the letters carry numbers, and what makes Hebrew Hebrew: with a dedicated page for every one of the twenty-two letters.
- StudyThe words your Bible left in their own languageAmen, hallelujah, hosanna, selah, abba, jot and tittle: the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words every English Bible declined to translate.
- StudyGreek Roots: the language of the New TestamentHow the Greek alphabet was borrowed from Phoenician, why the letters carry numbers, and what makes Koine Koine: with a dedicated page for every one of the twenty-four letters.
- StudyGamma (Γγ): the Greek letterThe letter behind “it is written”, and behind every gospel that got written down.
- StudyThe Reformation (1500–1600): church historyOne monk's conscience, one printing press, and one open Bible. In a single century Scripture went from a chained Latin book to something a farmhand could read in his own language.
Voices
4 results- VoiceJan HusJan Hus preached to thousands at Prague's Bethlehem Chapel in their own Czech language — an act nearly as radical as what he preached, which was Wycliffe's conviction that…
- VoiceAnthony the GreatAnthony was born about 251 in Coma, a village in Middle Egypt, to Christian farmers with good land. He spoke Coptic, the Egyptian language, and never learned Greek. He would…
- VoiceDerek PrincePeter Derek Vaughan Prince (August 14, 1915 – September 24, 2003) was a British Bible teacher. Educated at Eton and King's College Cambridge in classical languages and…
- VoiceMichael S. Heiser- **PhD, Hebrew Bible and Semitic Languages** — University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2004 - **MA, Ancient History** — University of Pennsylvania (Ancient Israel; Egyptology)…
Apocrypha (study resources)
8 results- Study resourceSirach 6:5Sweet language will multiply friends: and a fairspeaking tongue will increase kind greetings.
- Study resource2 Maccabees 15:29Then they made a great shout and a noise, praising the Almighty in their own language.
- Study resource2 Maccabees 7:8But he answered in his own language, and said, No. Wherefore he also received the next torment in order, as the former did.
- Study resource2 Maccabees 12:37And with that he began in his own language, and sung psalms with a loud voice, and rushing unawares upon Gorgias’ men, he put them to flight.
- Study resourceBaruch 4:15For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.
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H8193שָׂפָה sâphâh — the lip (as a natural boundary)H1697דָּבָר dâbâr — a wordH3956לָשׁוֹן lâshôwn — the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)H3961לִשָּׁן lishshân — speech, i.e. a nationG1258διάλεκτος diálektos — a (mode of) discourse, i.e. "dialect"H3066יְהוּדִית Yᵉhûwdîyth — the Jewish (used adverbially) language