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'Tongue' in the Bible

And Moses said to Yahweh, "Please, Lord, I [am] not a man of words, {neither recently nor in the past nor since your speaking} to your servant, because I [am] heavy of mouth and of tongue."

So he brought down the troops to the water, and Yahweh said to Gideon, "You must separate everyone who laps up the water to drink with his tongue like a dog from those {who kneel}."

From [the] scourge of [the] tongue you shall be hidden, and you shall not be afraid of destruction when it comes.

Is there injustice on my tongue? Or can my palate not discern calamity?

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose [the] tongue of [the] crafty.

"Though wickedness tastes sweet in his mouth, [and] he hides it under his tongue,

He will suck [the] poison of horned vipers; [the] viper's tongue will kill him.

[The] voices of nobles were hushed, and their tongue stuck to their palate.

Please look, I open my mouth; my tongue in my mouth speaks.

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, [the] tongue speaking great boasts--

[those] who say, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips [are] on our side. Who [is] master over us?"

He does not slander with his tongue. He does not harm his friend, nor {bring up} a disgrace against his neighbor.

My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking [to] my jaws; and you have placed me in [the] dust of death.

[The] mouth of [the] righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

My heart grew hot inside me; in my sighing a fire burned. [Then] I spoke with my tongue,

My heart is moved [with] a good word; I recite my {compositions} to [the] king. My tongue [is the] pen [of] a skilled scribe.

You give your mouth free rein for evil, and you harness your tongue to deceit.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation; [then] my tongue will sing aloud [of] your righteousness.

Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.

You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue,

who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They bend [their bow to shoot] their arrows--bitter words,

And they [who] would cause him to stumble, their [own] tongue [will be] against them. All who gaze on them will shake.

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

My tongue also will speak of your righteousness all the day, because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated who seek my harm.

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue roams the earth.

for {wicked and deceitful mouths} have opened against me. They speak to me with a lying tongue.

"Deliver my life, O Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue."

What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you, deceitful tongue?

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great [things] for these [people]."

Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if do not I exalt Jerusalem above my highest joy.

[in order] to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of [the] tongue of {an adulteress}.

Choice silver is a tongue of righteousness, a heart of wickedness is {of little worth}.

The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a tongue of perversity will be cut off.

A lip of truth endures forever, but a tongue of deception lasts only a moment.

He who does evil listens to lips of wickedness, [and] the liar gives heed to the tongue of mischief.

He who is crooked of heart will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity.

He who rebukes a person will afterward find [more] favor than he who flatters [with the] tongue.

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and dry grass sinks down [in the] flame, so their root will become like [the] stench, and their blossom will go up like [the] dust. For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts, and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt.

And Yahweh will divide the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and he will wave his hand over the river with his scorching wind; and he will strike it into seven streams, and he will {make it passable by foot}.

Look! The name of Yahweh comes from afar, burning [with] his anger and heaviness of cloud. His lips are full [of] indignation, and his tongue [is] like a devouring fire.

You will not see [the] insolent people, [the] people {whose language is too obscure to understand}, [whose] stammering of tongue {cannot be understood}.

Then [the] lame shall leap like the deer, and [the] tongue of [the] dumb shall sing for joy, for waters shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

The poor and the needy [are] seeking water and [there is] none; their tongue is dried up with thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

I have sworn by myself; a word that shall not return has gone forth from my mouth [in] righteousness: 'Every knee shall kneel down to me; every tongue shall swear.'

Every weapon formed against you shall not succeed, and you shall declare guilty every tongue [that] rises against you for judgment. This [is] the inheritance of the servants of Yahweh, and their {legal right} from me," {declares} Yahweh.

At whom do you make fun? At whom do you {open} [your] mouth [and] {stick out} [your] tongue? [Are] you not children of transgression, offspring of deception,

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue speaks wickedness.

And they bend their tongue [like] their bow, [for] falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth from evil to evil, and they do not know me," {declares} Yahweh.

Their tongue [is] a murderous arrow, it speaks deceit. With his mouth he speaks peace with his neighbor, but in his inner parts he sets up his ambush.

The tongue of the nursling cleaves to its palate in thirst. Children beg [for] food, {no one lays it out before them}.

And I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silenced, and you will not be a reproving man for them, for they {are a rebellious house}.

They turn, not to the Most High, like a slack bow; their officials will fall by the sword because of the anger of their tongue. This [is] their scorn in the land of Egypt.

The remnant of Israel shall not do wickedness; they shall not speak deception, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall frighten [them]."

And he took him away from the crowd by himself [and] put his fingers into his ears, and [after] spitting, he touched his tongue.

And his mouth and his tongue were opened immediately, and he began to speak, praising God.

And he called out [and] said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he could dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am suffering pain in this flame!'

For this [reason] my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced greatly, furthermore also my flesh will live in hope,

For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will praise God."

For the one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, because no one understands, but by the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but the one who prophesies edifies the church.

And so you through the tongue, unless you produce a clear message, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.

Therefore the one who speaks in a tongue must pray that he may interpret.

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unproductive.

but in the church I prefer to speak five words with my mind, in order that I may instruct other [people], than ten thousand words in a tongue.

If anyone speaks in a tongue, [it must be] on one occasion two or at most three, and {one after the other}, and one must interpret.

And the tongue [is] a fire! The world of unrighteousness, the tongue, is set among our members, defiling the whole body and setting on fire {the course of human existence}, being set on fire by hell.

but no human being is able to tame the tongue. [It is] a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

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Root Form
Definition
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ארמית 
'Aramiyth 
Usage: 5

הסה 
Hacah 
Usage: 8

חרשׁ 
Charash 
Usage: 74

לשׁנה לשׁן לשׁון 
Lashown 
Usage: 116

γλῶσσα 
Glossa 
Usage: 48

διάλεκτος 
Dialektos 
Usage: 6

Ἑβραΐστί 
hebraisti 
in the Hebrew tongue , in the Hebrew , in Hebrew
Usage: 6

ἑτερόγλωσσος 
heteroglossos 
Usage: 1