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lips

Meaning of “lips”

Sense 1: The physical borders of the mouth. Sense 2: By extension, speech or utterance.

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119 occurrences118 verses26 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Exodus 6:12

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Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 59:3 · retained source text

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquitie, your lippes haue spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered peruersnesse.

1611 marginal noteChap. 1.15.

Jeremiah 17:16
As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 17:16 · retained source text

As for me, I haue not hastened from being a pastour to follow thee, neither haue I desired the wofull day, thou knowest: that which came out of my lips, was right before thee.

1611 marginal noteHeb. after thee.

1611 marginal noteChap.1.4, &c.

Lamentations 3:62
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Lamentations 3:62 · retained source text

The lippes of those that rose vp against me, and their deuice against me all the day.

Ezekiel 24:17
Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 24:17 · retained source text

Forbeare to crie, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head vpon thee, and put on thy shooes vpon thy feete, and couer not thy lips, and eate not the bread of men.

1611 marginal noteHeb. be silent.

1611 marginal noteHeb. vpper lip. And so vers.22.

Ezekiel 24:22
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 24:22 · retained source text

And yee shall doe as I haue done: yee shall not couer your lips, nor eate the bread of men.

Ezekiel 36:3
Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 36:3 · retained source text

Therfore prophecie and say, Thus saith the LORD God, Because they haue made you desolate, and swallowed you vp on euery side, that ye might be a possession vnto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken vp in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

1611 marginal noteHeb. because for because.

1611 marginal noteOr, ye are made to come vp on the lip of the tongue.

Daniel 10:16
And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Daniel 10:16 · retained source text

And behold, one like the similitude of the sonnes of men touched my lippes: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and sayd vnto him that stoode before me; O my LORD, by the vision my sorrowes are turned vpon me, and I haue retained no strength.

Hosea 14:2
Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Hosea 14:2 · retained source text

Take with you words, and turne to the LORD, say vnto him, Take away all iniquitie, and receiue vs graciously: so will wee render the calues of our lips.

1611 marginal noteOr, giue good.

1611 marginal noteHebr.13.15.

Micah 3:7
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Micah 3:7 · retained source text

Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diuiners confounded: yea, they shall all couer their lips; for there is no answere of God.

1611 marginal noteHeb. vpper lippe.

Habakkuk 3:16
When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Habakkuk 3:16 · retained source text

When I heard, my belly trembled: my lips quiuered at the voice: rottennesse entred into my bones, and I trembled in my selfe, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when hee commeth vp vnto the people, he wil inuade them with his troupes.

1611 marginal noteOr, cut them in pieces.

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