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Ecclesiastes 10:12

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Masoretic Text 1524

H1697 The words דברי

H6310 of a wise man's mouth פי

H2450 חכם

H2580 are gracious חן

H8193 but the lips ושׂפתות

H3684 of a fool כסיל

H1104 will swallow up תבלענו׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

The

H1697 words

wise

man's

H6310 mouth

are

H2580 gracious

but

the

H8193 lips

H3684 fool

will

swallow

H1104 up

himself

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H8193

Hebrew: שָׂפָה

Transliteration: sâphâh

Pronunciation: saw-faw'

Part of Speech: Noun Feminine

Bible Usage: {band} {bank} {binding} {border} {brim} {brink} {edge} {language} {lip} {prating} ([sea-]) {shore} {side} {speech} {talk} [vain] words.

Definition:

Probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication language; by analogy a margin (of a {vessel} {water} {cloth} etc.)

1. lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding

a. lip (as body part)

b. language

c. edge, shore, bank (of cup, sea, river, etc)

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906