Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
The 1611 reading
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause mee to vnderstand wherein I haue erred.
KJV dictionary & concordance
1. The organ of the mouth used for tasting and speech. 2. Speech, words, or a language. 3. A tongue-shaped projection or arm of land or water.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 10:5
Complete exact-word concordance
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause mee to vnderstand wherein I haue erred.
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Is there iniquitie in my tongue? cannot my taste discerne peruerse things?
1611 marginal noteHebr. my palate.
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
Who is hee that will plead with me? for now if I hold my tongue, I shall giue vp the ghost.
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
For thy mouth vttereth thine iniquitie, and thou choosest the tongue of the craftie.
1611 marginal noteHeb. teacheth.
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Though wickednes be sweet in his mouth, though hee hide it vnder his tongue;
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
He shall sucke the poison of Aspes: the vipers tongue shall slay him.
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
My lips shall not speake wickednesse, nor my tongue vtter deceit.
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
The Nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.
1611 marginal noteHeb. the voice of the nobles was hid.
Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
Behold, now I haue opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
1611 marginal noteHeb. in my palate.
CANST thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
¶ Canst thou draw out Leuiathan with an hooke? or his tongue with a corde which thou lettest downe?
1611 marginal noteThat is, a whale or a whirlepoole.
1611 marginal noteHeb. which thou drownest.
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1 · Direct Scripture definition
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
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 nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
2 · KJV context and cross-references