Greek noun (neuter) · G5491
χεῖλος
cheiloskhi'-los
lip
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: cheîlos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5491is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5491
a lip (as a pouring place); figuratively, a margin (of water)
The King James renders it: lip, shore.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
cheilos is rendered "lip". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Two of the uses stand in Hebrews, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 15:8‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
Matthew 15:8χείλεσίν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- lips5
- of lips1
- shore1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- χείλεσίν2
- χείλη2
- χείλεσιν1
- χειλέων1
- χεῖλος1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural3N-DPN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural2N-APN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular1N-ASN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural1N-GPN
Matthew
one use
‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
- χείλεσίνcheilesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: lips
Mark
one use
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.
- χείλεσίνcheilesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: lips
Romans
one use
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
- χείληcheilenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: lips
1 Corinthians
one use
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.”
- χείλεσινcheilesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: lips
Hebrews
two uses
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.
- χεῖλοςcheilosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: shore
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
- χειλέωνcheileonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of lips
1 Peter
one use
For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
- χείληcheilenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: lips
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.