Tongue
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Tongue

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Tongue (160 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) Honorable discourse; eulogy. 5. (n.) A language; the whole sum of
words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue. ...
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Palate (15 Occurrences)
... Palate (15 Occurrences). Job 6:30 Is there in my tongue perverseness? ... Job 29:10 The
voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate. ...
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Deceitful (46 Occurrences)
... 1 Peter 3:10 For "He who wishes to be well-satisfied with life and see happy days--
let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from deceitful words ...
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Backbite
... "He that backbiteth [Revised Version, slandereth] not with his tongue" (Psalm
15:3). Backbiters bak'-bit-rz (Greek katalaloi: Men who speak against. ...
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Deadly (31 Occurrences)
... the phrases "deadly thing," ie poison (thanasimon ti, Mark 16:18), and "full of
deadly poison" (meste iou thanatephorou, James 3:8), said of an unruly tongue. ...
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Perverseness (46 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Job 6:30 Is there in my tongue perverseness? ... (YLT). Job 27:4 My lips do not
speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit. (YLT). ...
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Wholesome (10 Occurrences)
... from the earlier meaning of "whole." It occurs in Proverbs 15:4, the King James
Version, the English Revised Version, "a wholesome tongue" (rapha', "heal," the ...
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Deceitfully (22 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV). Psalms 52:2 Your tongue plots destruction,
like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS). ...
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Smooth (39 Occurrences)
... Psalms 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very
wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue...
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Poison (17 Occurrences)
... Psalm 140:3, "They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; adders' poison is
under their lips," indicates, what is still a common belief, that the forked ...
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Gift (148 Occurrences)
... basic. The speaker in a tongue addressed God (14:2, 28) in prayer (14:14),
principally in the prayer of thanksgiving (14:15-17). ...
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Elamarna
... The peculiar use of the cuneiform method of writing in these tablets in order to
adapt it to the requirements of a strange land having a native tongue, and the ...
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Tablets (31 Occurrences)
... The peculiar use of the cuneiform method of writing in these tablets in order to
adapt it to the requirements of a strange land having a native tongue, and the ...
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Speaketh (367 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 14:2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men,
but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he ...
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El-amarna
... The peculiar use of the cuneiform method of writing in these tablets in order to
adapt it to the requirements of a strange land having a native tongue, and the ...
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Shinar (8 Occurrences)
... Sen(n)aar): 1. Identification 2. Possible Babylonian Form of the Name 3. Sumerian
and Other Equivalents 4. The Syriac Sen'ar 5. The Primitive Tongue of Shinar 6 ...
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Dumb (34 Occurrences)
... DUMB. dum (alam, 'illem, literally, "tied in the tongue"; kophos): Used either as
expressing the physical condition of speechlessness, generally associated with ...
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Tell (3056 Occurrences)
... The peculiar use of the cuneiform method of writing in these tablets in order to
adapt it to the requirements of a strange land having a native tongue, and the ...
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Falsehood (107 Occurrences)
... WBS NAS RSV NIV). Job 27:4 Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my
tongue does not say what is false. (See RSV). Job 31:5 "If ...
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Wayward (14 Occurrences)
... ASV). Proverbs 2:16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman,
who says smooth words with her tongue; (See NIV). Proverbs ...
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Whole (2785 Occurrences)
... from the earlier meaning of "whole." It occurs in Proverbs 15:4, the King James
Version, the English Revised Version, "a wholesome tongue" (rapha', "heal," the ...
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Flattering (11 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV). Psalms 12:3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering
lips, and the tongue that boasts, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Mischievous (13 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Job 6:30 Is there injustice on my tongue? ... Psalms 52:2 Thy tongue deviseth
mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit. (DBY). ...
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Mutter (6 Occurrences)
... So the verse should be rendered, "Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue uttereth
wickedness." In Isaiah 8:19 haghah describes the tone of voice used by the ...
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Perverted (26 Occurrences)
... Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion
of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me. ...
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Sharpened (13 Occurrences)
... sharpened, (DBY NIV). Psalms 52:2 Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like
a sharp razor, working deceitfully. (See NIV). Psalms 64:3 ...
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Wheel (20 Occurrences)
... to the whole. Just so an apparently insignificant sin of the tongue produces
an incalculably destructive effect. The phrase "wheel ...
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Samaritan (8 Occurrences)
... It is said in the Talmud (Sanhedhrin 21b): "The law at first was given to Israel
in `ibhri letters and in the holy tongue and again by Ezra in the square ...
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Sea (4178 Occurrences)
... About two-thirds of the distance to the southern end, the peninsula, el-Lisan
("the Tongue"), projects from the East more than half-way across the lake, being ...
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Pen (16 Occurrences)
... Figurative: "Written with a pen of iron," ie indelibly (Jeremiah 17:1). "My tongue
is the pen of a ready writer" (Psalm 45:1; compare Jeremiah 36:18). ...
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Breaks (35 Occurrences)
... Proverbs 15:4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is
a breach in the spirit. (See RSV). ... A soft tongue breaks the bone. (WEB NAS). ...
biblethesaurus.org/b/breaks.htm - 16k

Sense (195 Occurrences)
... (BBE). 1 Corinthians 14:9 So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which
have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? ...
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Roof (55 Occurrences)
... Job 29:10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the
roof of their mouth. ... My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. ...
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Bridle (12 Occurrences)
... To "bridle" occurs (James 1:26, "bridleth not his tongue"; James 3:2 "able to bridle
the whole body"; chalinagogeo, "to lead" or "guide with a bit"). ...
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Tip (17 Occurrences)
... Luke 16:24 He cried and said,'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus,
that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! ...
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Perverse (55 Occurrences)
... Job 6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? ... (WEB ASV NIV). Proverbs 10:31 The mouth
of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off. ...
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Deceit (160 Occurrences)
... 1 Peter 3:10 For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue
from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. (WEB WEY BBE NAS NIV). ...
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Flames (54 Occurrences)
... flee. (See NIV). James 3:5 In the same way the tongue is an insignificant
part of the body, but it is immensely boastful. Remember ...
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Snake (43 Occurrences)
... (BBE NIV). Job 20:16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue
of the snake is the cause of his death. (Root in BBE). ...
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Vanity (100 Occurrences)
... Selah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS). Psalms 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit
and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. (KJV WBS). ...
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Speech (107 Occurrences)
... conversation. 3. (n.) A particular language, as distinct from others; a
tongue; a dialect. 4. (n.) Talk; mention; common saying. ...
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Course (87 Occurrences)
... count" (the Revised Version (British and American) "are moved"; the American Standard
Revised Version "are shaken") (Psalm 82:5). (7) (The tongue) "setteth on ...
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Arabic
... early translated and in which a Christian literature was produced; and thirdly,
as the vernacular of Mohammed and his followers, the classical tongue of that ...
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Ethiopic
... It is called lesana Ge`ez, "the tongue of Ge`ez," by the Abyssinians themselves,
most probably because it was originally the dialect of the Ge`ez tribe, who in ...
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Purposes (67 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Psalms 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words:
under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts. (BBE). ...
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Targum
... of the Hebrew Scriptures in Chaldaic (Western Aramaic) for the benefit of those
Jews who had partially or completely ceased to understand the sacred tongue. ...
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Speaks (109 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 23:2 "The Spirit of Yahweh spoke by me. His word was on my tongue. ... Job
33:2 See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth. ...
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Plans (55 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Proverbs 16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer
of the tongue is from Yahweh. (WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Babylonia (17 Occurrences)
... The latter is an agglutinative tongue like the Turkish, and belongs to that great
unclassifiable group of languages, called for the sake of convenience ...
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Slow (43 Occurrences)
... gradual; late. 4. (superl.) Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish;
as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue. 5. (superl ...
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Venom (8 Occurrences)
... The viper's tongue shall kill him. (WEB). ... Psalms 140:3 They have sharpened their
tongue like a serpent; Adders poison is under their lips. Selah (See JPS). ...
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Calamity (108 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Job 6:30 Is there injustice on my tongue? ... Proverbs 21:23 He who keeps
watch over his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles. (See NIV). ...
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Twisted (79 Occurrences)
... low. (BBE). Proverbs 10:31 The mouth of the upright man is budding with wisdom,
but the twisted tongue will be cut off. (BBE). Proverbs ...
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Worm (22 Occurrences)
... balls from firearms. 12. (n.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some
animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta. 13. (n.) The ...
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Whet (5 Occurrences)
... Exodus 11:7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue,
against man or beast: that ye may know how that Jehovah doth make a ...
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Interpreted (19 Occurrences)
... Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the
writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in ...
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Insolent (16 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Isaiah 33:19 Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose
tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you. (See RSV). ...
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Froward (21 Occurrences)
... (KJV JPS DBY WBS YLT). Proverbs 10:31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom:
but the froward tongue shall be cut out. (KJV JPS DBY WBS YLT). ...
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Flatter (5 Occurrences)
... Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue. ... Psalms 78:36 But they
flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue. ...
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Flattery (11 Occurrences)
... With heart and heart they speak. (YLT). Psalms 12:3 Jehovah doth cut off
all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things, (YLT). ...
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Throat (13 Occurrences)
... Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with
their tongue. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Rejoices (30 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Acts 2:26 Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. ... (WEB NIV).
Psalms 16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. ...
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Rebukes (13 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Proverbs 28:23 One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor
than one who flatters with the tongue. (WEB NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Rein (3 Occurrences)
... James 1:26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle
his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless. ...
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Deceives (14 Occurrences)
... James 1:26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle
his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless. ...
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Defiles (12 Occurrences)
... Mark 7:20 He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the
man. (WEB DBY NAS RSV). James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire. ...
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Defileth (12 Occurrences)
... James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among
our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of ...
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Devouring (20 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Psalms 52:4 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue. ... His lips
are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire. ...
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Defiler (1 Occurrence)
... James 3:6 and the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set
in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the ...
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Mischiefs (6 Occurrences)
... Psalms 5:9 For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart 'is' mischiefs,
An open grave 'is' their throat, Their tongue they make smooth. (YLT). ...
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Man's (347 Occurrences)
... 7:33 And he took him on one side from the people privately, and put his fingers
into his ears, and he put water from his mouth on the man's tongue with his ...
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Plots (20 Occurrences)
... his teeth. (WEB NAS RSV). Psalms 52:2 Your tongue plots destruction, like
a sharp razor, working deceitfully. (WEB NIV). Psalms 64 ...
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Perversion (13 Occurrences)
... Psalms 5:9 For there is no certainty in their mouth; their inward part is perversion,
their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. (DBY). ...
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Bay (8 Occurrences)
... Sea at the mouth of the Jordan (Joshua 15:5; 18:19), also the southern extremity
of the same sea (15:2). The same Hebrew word is rendered "tongue" in Isaiah 11 ...
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Boasts (18 Occurrences)
... James 3:5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how
a small fire can spread to a large forest! (WEB DBY NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Boastful (18 Occurrences)
... NAS NIV). James 3:5 In the same way the tongue is an insignificant part
of the body, but it is immensely boastful. Remember how a ...
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Bows (28 Occurrences)
... Judges 7:5 So 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 ...
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Bottomless (9 Occurrences)
... Revelation 9:11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless
pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue...
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Cool (8 Occurrences)
... "Cool my tongue" (Luke 16:24), a phrase reflecting the Jewish notion that Abraham
had power to rescue his descendants from the fires of Hades. ...
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Confess (65 Occurrences)
... Romans 14:11 For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord,'to me every knee will
bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'" (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NIV). ...
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