'Tongue' in the Bible

From these came the distribution of the isles of the nations, according to their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

And Moses said to Jehovah, Ah Lord! I am not eloquent, neither heretofore nor since thou hast spoken to thy servant, for I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue.

But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast; that ye may know that Jehovah distinguisheth between the Egyptians and Israel.

Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth, like as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou understandest not;

and all the people returned to the camp to Joshua, at Makkedah, in peace; none moved his tongue against the children of Israel.

And their southern border was from the end of the salt sea, from the tongue that turns southward;

And the eastern border was the salt sea as far as the end of the Jordan. And the border on the north side was from the tongue of the salt sea, at the end of the Jordan;

and the border passed on to the side of Beth-hoglah on the north, and the border ended at the tongue of the salt sea northward, at the south end of the Jordan: this is the southern border.

So he brought the people down to the water; and the LORD said to Gideon, "Every one that laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself; likewise every one that kneels down to drink."

The Spirit of Jehovah spoke by me, And his word was on my tongue.

for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the adversary could not compensate the king's damage.

Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue; and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

Is there wrong in my tongue? cannot my taste discern mischievous things?

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.

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

He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.

My lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor my tongue utter deceit!

The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.

Behold now, I have opened my mouth, my tongue speaketh in my palate,

Wilt thou draw out the leviathan with the hook, and press down his tongue with a cord?

For there is no certainty in their mouth; their inward part is perversion, their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things,

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

He that slandereth not with his tongue, doeth not evil to his companion, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour;

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile;

And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness, and of thy praise, all the day.

The mouth of the righteous proffereth wisdom, and his tongue speaketh judgment;

{To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.} I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is before me.

My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue,

{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; a song of the Beloved.} My heart is welling forth with a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.

Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!

Swallow them up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down among them that breathe out flames, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;

By their own tongue they are made to fall over one another: all that see them shall flee away.

I called unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.

That thou mayest dip thy foot in blood: the tongue of thy dogs has its portion from enemies.

My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day; for they shall be ashamed, for they shall be brought to confusion, that seek my hurt.

They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;

For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue,

My tongue shall speak aloud of thy word; for all thy commandments are righteousness.

Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the deceitful tongue.

What shall be given unto thee, what shall be added unto thee, thou deceitful tongue?

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing: then said they among the nations, Jehovah hath done great things for them.

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to my palate: if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

For there is not yet a word on my tongue, but lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

Let not the man of evil tongue be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the man of violence to his ruin.

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;

to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

The tongue of the righteous man is as choice silver; the heart of the wicked is little worth.

The mouth of a righteous man putteth forth wisdom; but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.

The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright; but the mouth of the foolish poureth out folly.

Gentleness of tongue is a tree of life; but crookedness therein is a breaking of the spirit.

The purposes of the heart are of man, but the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.

The evil-doer giveth heed to iniquitous lips; the liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.

He that hath a perverse heart findeth no good; and he that shifteth about with his tongue falleth into evil.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting breath of them that seek death.

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

The north wind bringeth forth rain, and the angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

A lying tongue hateth those that are injured by it, and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

He that rebuketh a man shall afterwards find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and upon her tongue is the law of kindness.

Thy lips, my spouse, drop as the honeycomb; Honey and milk are under thy tongue; And the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

Therefore as a tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and dry grass sinketh down in the flame, their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; for they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind will he shake his hand over the river, and will smite it into seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

For with stammering lips and a strange tongue will he speak to this people;

Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning with his anger a grievous conflagration; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a consuming fire;

and the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

Thou shalt no more see the fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst comprehend, of a stammering tongue that cannot be understood.

then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and torrents in the desert.

The afflicted and the needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue faileth for thirst: I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed.

No weapon that is prepared against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that riseth against thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah; and their righteousness is of me, saith Jehovah.

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom do ye make a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? Are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue muttereth unrighteousness:

And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbour, and speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing.

Their tongue is a murderous arrow; it speaketh deceit. A man speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth his ambush.

And they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask bread, no man breaketh it unto them.

And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.

They return, but not to the Most High: they are like a deceitful bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

The remnant of Israel shall not work unrighteousness, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: but they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

And having taken him away from the crowd apart, he put his fingers to his ears; and having spit, he touched his tongue;

And immediately his ears were opened, and the band of his tongue was loosed and he spoke right.