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Tongue
Verses
139 results- VerseProverbs 15:4A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
- VerseProverbs 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
- VersePsalms 34:13Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.
- VersePsalms 52:4You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
- VersePsalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Words (Strong's)
16 results- WordG1100 γλῶσσα · glōssa (Greek)the tongue. The Greek word stands 49 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…
- WordG1258 διάλεκτος · diálektos (Greek)a (mode of) discourse, i.e. "dialect". The Greek word stands 6 times in the original text.
- WordG2084 ἑτερόγλωσσος · heteróglōssos (Greek)other- tongued, i.e. a foreigner. The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordH2790 חָרַשׁ · chârash (Hebrew)to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough. The Hebrew word stands 74 times in the original text.
Themes
2 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…
- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
Topics
2 resultsFeatured studies
3 results- StudyThe TongueDeath and life are in the power of the tongue: Proverbs' speech-ethics kept as a two-column ledger, with the disciplines that guard the mouth and James 3 as the terminus.
- StudyJames: the Study GuideNine stations where genuine faith is proven (trial, doing, partiality, works, the tongue, wisdom, worldliness, wealth, prayer) anchored to the Lord of glory and the coming of the Lord, with the…
- StudyGamma (Γγ): the Greek letterThe letter behind “it is written”, and behind every gospel that got written down.
Voices
1 resultApocrypha (study resources)
53 results- Study resourceSirach 4:29Be not hasty in thy tongue, and in thy deeds slack and remiss.
- Study resourceSirach 28:15A backbiting tongue hath cast out virtuous women, and deprived them of their labours.
- Study resourceSirach 6:5Sweet language will multiply friends: and a fairspeaking tongue will increase kind greetings.
- Study resourceSirach 17:6Counsel, and a tongue, and eyes, ears, and a heart, gave he them to understand.
- Study resourceSirach 5:13Honour and shame is in talk: and the tongue of man is his fall.
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G1100γλῶσσα glōssa — the tongueH3956לָשׁוֹן 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)G1258διάλεκτος diálektos — a (mode of) discourse, i.e. "dialect"G2084ἑτερόγλωσσος heteróglōssos — other- tongued, i.e. a foreignerH2790חָרַשׁ chârash — to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, ploughH5275נַעַל naʻal — properly, a sandal tongue