Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H3956

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Original: לשׁנה לשׁן לשׁון

Transliteration: lashon lashon leshonah (lâshôn lâshôn leshônâh)

Phonetic: law-shone'

BDB Definition:

tongue
1. tongue (of men)
  1. tongue (literal)
  2. tongue (organ of speech)
2. language
3. tongue (of animals)
4. tongue (of fire)
5. wedge, bay of sea (tongue-shaped)

Origin: from H3960

TWOT entry: 1131a

Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

Strong's Definition: From H3960; 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): - + babbler, bay, + evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (115x)

According To The Language (1x)

After His Tongue (1x)

After Their Language (3x)

After Their Tongues (2x)

And According To Their Language (1x)

And Every Tongue (1x)

And His Tongue (3x)

And I Will Make Thy Tongue (1x)

And In Her Tongue (1x)

And My Tongue (2x)

And Our Tongue (1x)

And The Tongue (3x)

And The Wedge (1x)

And Their Tongue (5x)

And Thy Tongue (1x)

And Tongues (1x)

Bay (1x)

Because Their Tongue (1x)

But According To The Language (1x)

But The Tongue (1x)

Every Tongue (1x)

From The Bay (2x)

Him With The Tongue (1x)

His Tongue (2x)

I With My Tongue (1x)

In My Tongue (3x)

It Under His Tongue (1x)

Language (2x)

Let Not An Evil Speaker (1x)

Me The Tongue (1x)

My Tongue (6x)

Nor My Tongue (1x)

Not With His Tongue (1x)

Not With My Tongue (1x)

Of Talkers (1x)

Of The Tongue (4x)

Of Their Tongue (1x)

Of Tongues (1x)

Or His Tongue (1x)

Out Of All Languages (1x)

So They Shall Make Their Own Tongue (1x)

The Tongue (8x)

Thee, Let My Tongue (1x)

Their Tongue (4x)

Their Tongues (4x)

Thy Tongue (2x)

Tongue (19x)

Under His Tongue (1x)

Under Thy Tongue (1x)

Unto Him With Their Tongues (1x)

Wedge (1x)

Whose Language (1x)

Whose Tongue (1x)

With His Tongue (1x)

With Our Tongue (1x)

With The Tongue (1x)

With Their Tongue (1x)

Your Tongue (1x)

All Occurrences

Genesis 10:5

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

Genesis 10:20

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

Genesis 10:31

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

Exodus 4:10

And Moses said unto the Lord , O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.(b)

(c)

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 the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;(l)

Joshua 7:21

When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.(h)

Joshua 7:24

And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

Joshua 10:21

And 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

And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:(a)

Joshua 15:5

And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:

Joshua 18:19

And the border passed along to the side of Beth–hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.(b)

Judges 7:5

So he brought down the people unto the water: and the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.

2 Samuel 23:2

The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.

Nehemiah 13:24

And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.(q)

(r)

Esther 1:22

For he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.(o)

Esther 3:12

Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king’s ring.(e)

Esther 8:9

Then were the king’s scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.

Job 5:21

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.(l)

Job 6:30

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?(o)

Job 15:5

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.(d)

Job 20:12

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

Job 20:16

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.

Job 27:4

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

Job 29:10

The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.(d)

Job 33:2

Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.(a)

Job 41:1

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?(a)

(b)

Psalm 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.(e)

(f)

(g)

Psalm 10:7

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.(f)

(g)

Psalm 12:3

The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:(d)

Psalm 12:4

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?(e)

Psalm 15:3

He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.(b)

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H3956

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H3956