KJV dictionary & concordance
1. An ordered form of speech and words used and understood by a people. 2. A particular tongue, vocabulary, or manner of expression. 3. A people or group sharing a language.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 11:1
Complete exact-word concordance
AND the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
¶ And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speach.
1611 marginal noteHebr. lippe.
1611 marginal noteHeb. words.
1611 marginal noteWis. 10.5.
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
And the LORD said; Behold, the people is one, and they haue all one language: and this they begin to doe: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they haue imagined to doe.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
Goe to, let vs go downe, and there cōfound their language, that they may not vnderstand one anothers speech.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad vpon the face of all the earth.
1611 marginal noteThat is, Confusion.
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A tongue, or speech.
