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H3956 — לָשׁוֹן
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Genesis 10:5 · לִלְשֹׁנ֑וֹOf these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.Genesis 10:20 · לִלְשֹֽׁנֹתָ֑םThese are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.Genesis 10:31 · לִלְשֹׁנֹתָ֑םThese are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.Exodus 4:10 · לָשׁ֖וֹןMoses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”Exodus 11:7 · לְשֹׁנ֔וֹBut against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal; that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.Deuteronomy 28:49 · לְשֹׁנֽוֹ׃Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;Joshua 7:21 · וּלְשׁ֨וֹןWhen I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”Joshua 7:24 · לְשׁ֣וֹןJoshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.Joshua 10:21 · לְשֹׁנֽוֹ׃that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.Joshua 15:2 · הַלָּשֹׁ֖ןTheir south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward;Joshua 15:5 · מִלְּשׁ֣וֹןThe east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan.Joshua 18:19 · לְשׁ֤וֹןThe border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south border.Judges 7:5 · בִּלְשׁוֹנ֨וֹSo he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”2 Samuel 23:2 · לְשׁוֹנִֽי׃“The Spirit of Yahweh spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.Nehemiah 13:24 · וְכִלְשׁ֖וֹןand their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.Esther 1:22 · כִּלְשׁוֹנ֑וֹ · כִּלְשׁ֥וֹןfor he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people.Esther 3:12 · כִּלְשׁוֹנ֑וֹThen the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.Esther 8:9 · כִּלְשֹׁנ֑וֹ · וְכִלְשׁוֹנָֽם׃Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.Job 5:21 · לָ֭שׁוֹןYou shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.Job 6:30 · בִּלְשׁוֹנִ֥יIs there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?Job 15:5 · לְשׁ֣וֹןFor your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.Job 20:12 · לְשׁוֹנֽוֹ׃“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,Job 20:16 · לְשׁ֣וֹןHe shall suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue shall kill him.Job 27:4 · וּ֝לְשׁוֹנִ֗יsurely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.Job 29:10 · וּ֝לְשׁוֹנָ֗םThe voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.Job 33:2 · לְשׁוֹנִ֣יSee now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.Job 41:1 · לְשֹׁנֽוֹ׃“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?Psalm 5:9 · לְ֝שׁוֹנָ֗םFor there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.Psalm 10:7 · לְ֝שׁוֹנ֗וֹHis mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.Psalm 12:3 · לָ֝שׁ֗וֹןMay Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,Psalm 12:4 · לִלְשֹׁנֵ֣נוּwho have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”Psalm 15:3 · לְשֹׁנ֗וֹHe who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;Psalm 22:15 · וּ֭לְשׁוֹנִיMy strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.Psalm 31:20 · לְשֹׁנֽוֹת׃In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.Psalm 34:13 · לְשׁוֹנְךָ֣Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.Psalm 35:28 · וּ֭לְשׁוֹנִיMy tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.Psalm 37:30 · וּ֝לְשׁוֹנ֗וֹThe mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.Psalm 39:1 · בִלְשׁ֫וֹנִ֥יFor the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”Psalm 39:3 · בִּלְשֽׁוֹנִי׃My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:Psalm 45:1 · לְ֝שׁוֹנִ֗יFor the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.” A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song. My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.Psalm 50:19 · וּ֝לְשׁוֹנְךָ֗“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.Psalm 51:14 · לְ֝שׁוֹנִ֗יDeliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.Psalm 52:2 · לְשׁוֹנֶ֑ךָYour tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.Psalm 52:4 · לְשׁ֣וֹןYou love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.Psalm 55:9 · לְשׁוֹנָ֑םConfuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.Psalm 57:4 · וּ֝לְשׁוֹנָ֗םMy soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.Psalm 64:3 · לְשׁוֹנָ֑םwho sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,Psalm 64:8 · לְשׁוֹנָ֑םTheir own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.Psalm 66:17 · לְשׁוֹנִֽי׃I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.Psalm 68:23 · לְשׁ֥וֹןThat you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”Psalm 71:24 · לְשׁוֹנִ֗יMy tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.Psalm 73:9 · וּ֝לְשׁוֹנָ֗םThey have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.Psalm 78:36 · וּ֝בִלְשׁוֹנָ֗םBut they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.Psalm 109:2 · לְשׁ֣וֹןfor they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.Psalm 119:172 · לְ֭שׁוֹנִיLet my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.Psalm 120:2 · מִלָּשׁ֥וֹןDeliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.Psalm 120:3 · לָשׁ֥וֹןWhat will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?Psalm 126:2 · וּלְשׁוֹנֵ֪נוּThen our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”Psalm 137:6 · לְשׁוֹנִ֨י׀Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you; if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.Psalm 139:4 · בִּלְשׁוֹנִ֑יFor there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.Psalm 140:3 · לְשׁוֹנָם֮They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.Psalm 140:11 · לָשׁוֹן֮An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.Proverbs 6:17 · לְשׁ֣וֹןhaughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;Proverbs 6:24 · לָשׁ֥וֹןto keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.Proverbs 10:20 · לְשׁ֣וֹןThe tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.Proverbs 10:31 · וּלְשׁ֥וֹןThe mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.Proverbs 12:18 · וּלְשׁ֖וֹןThere is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.Proverbs 12:19 · לְשׁ֣וֹןTruth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.Proverbs 15:2 · לְשׁ֣וֹןThe tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.Proverbs 15:4 · לָ֭שׁוֹןA gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.Proverbs 16:1 · לָשֽׁוֹן׃The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.Proverbs 17:4 · לְשׁ֥וֹןAn evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.Proverbs 17:20 · בִּ֝לְשׁוֹנ֗וֹOne who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.Proverbs 18:21 · לָשׁ֑וֹןDeath and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.Proverbs 21:6 · בִּלְשׁ֣וֹןGetting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.Proverbs 21:23 · וּלְשׁוֹנ֑וֹWhoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.Proverbs 25:15 · וְלָשׁ֥וֹןBy patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.Proverbs 25:23 · לְשׁ֣וֹןThe north wind brings forth rain: so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.Proverbs 26:28 · לְֽשׁוֹן־A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.Proverbs 28:23 · לָשֽׁוֹן׃One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.Proverbs 31:26 · לְשׁוֹנָֽהּ׃She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.Ecclesiastes 10:11 · הַלָּשֽׁוֹן׃If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.Song of Solomon 4:11 · לְשׁוֹנֵ֔ךְYour lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.Isaiah 3:8 · לְשׁוֹנָ֤םFor Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes of his glory.Isaiah 5:24 · לְשׁ֣וֹןTherefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.Isaiah 11:15 · לְשׁ֣וֹןYahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.Isaiah 28:11 · וּבְלָשׁ֖וֹןBut he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;Isaiah 30:27 · וּלְשׁוֹנ֖וֹBehold, the name of Yahweh comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire.Isaiah 32:4 · וּלְשׁ֣וֹןThe heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.Isaiah 33:19 · לָשׁ֖וֹןYou will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand.Isaiah 35:6 · לְשׁ֣וֹןThen the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.Isaiah 41:17 · לְשׁוֹנָ֖םThe poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.Isaiah 45:23 · לָשֽׁוֹן׃I have sworn by myself, the word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.Isaiah 50:4 · לְשׁ֣וֹןThe Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.Isaiah 54:17 · לָשׁ֛וֹןNo weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me,” says Yahweh.Isaiah 57:4 · לָשׁ֑וֹןAgainst whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,Isaiah 59:3 · לְשׁוֹנְכֶ֖םFor your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.Isaiah 66:18 · וְהַלְּשֹׁנ֑וֹת“For I know their works and their thoughts: the time comes, that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.Jeremiah 5:15 · לְשֹׁנ֔וֹBehold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know, neither understand what they say.Jeremiah 9:3 · לְשׁוֹנָם֙They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 9:5 · לְשׁוֹנָ֛םThey will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.Jeremiah 9:8 · לְשׁוֹנָ֖םTheir tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.Jeremiah 18:18 · בַלָּשׁ֔וֹןThen they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.Jeremiah 23:31 · לְשׁוֹנָ֔םBehold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who use their tongues, and say, He says.Lamentations 4:4 · לְשׁ֥וֹןThe tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.Daniel 1:4 · וּלְשׁ֥וֹןyouths in whom was no blemish, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.Hosea 7:16 · לְשׁוֹנָ֑םThey return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.Micah 6:12 · וּלְשׁוֹנָ֖םHer rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.Zephaniah 3:13 · לְשׁ֣וֹןThe remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”Zechariah 8:23 · לְשֹׁנ֣וֹתThus says Yahweh of Armies: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”Zechariah 14:12 · וּלְשׁוֹנ֖וֹThis will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.