27 occurrences

'Tongues' in the Bible

Every board is to be joined to the one nearest to it by two tongues, and so for every board in the House.

Verse ConceptsTwo Parts Of ConstructionsTenons And Bars

With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under every board to take its tongues.

Verse ConceptsTwentyTwo Parts Of ConstructionsFortiesTenons And Bars

Every board had two tongues fixed into it; all the boards were made in this way.

Verse ConceptsTwo Parts Of Constructions

And for these twenty boards, forty silver bases, two bases under every board, to take its tongues.

Verse ConceptsTwentyTwo Parts Of ConstructionsForties

So he took the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, Put on one side by themselves all those drinking up the water with their tongues like a dog; and in the same way, all those who go down on their knees to the water while drinking.

Verse ConceptsdogsTonguegroupsarmygideon

Now the number of those who took up the water with their tongues was three hundred; all the rest of the people went down on their knees to the water.

Verse ConceptsThree Hundred And Above

And the Lord said to Gideon, By those three hundred who were drinking with their tongues I will give you salvation and give the Midianites into your hands; let the rest of the people go away, every man to his place.

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Handsgroupsarmygideon

The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Being Silent

Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

Verse ConceptsVanityFlatteryFlattery, Used By The Wickeddouble mindednessVain TalkThose Who Are LiarsDeceptionHurt And BetrayalLying And Deceitmotives

They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?

Verse ConceptsThe Lips Of The WickedThe TongueOvercomingThe Power Of Words

You will keep them safe in your house from the designs of man; in the secret of your tent will you keep them from angry tongues.

Verse Conceptsdefence, divineSafetySanctuaryGod Being Our Hiding PlaceGod Being Our RefugeGod Hiding PeopleConspiracyshelter

Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.

Verse ConceptsViolence In The EarthConfusionTowersViolenceConquestDisharmonyPuzzlementLanguages ConfusedLanguages SeparatedThe TongueConflictSpeechtransition

See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodUnhearing

Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

Verse ConceptsArrows, Described AsArrows, Figurative OfSharpeningArrows

The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

Verse ConceptsGesturesShaking The HeadThe Tongue

So that your foot may be red with blood, and the tongues of your dogs with the same.

Verse ConceptsdogsTongueAnimals Eating PeopleHuman Blood ShedThe TonguePets

Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, At GodClaimsSelf Exaltation

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.

Verse ConceptsDumbnessDaydreamingOccupationsSleep, SpiritualSleep, PhysicalWatchmanSloth Examples OfSleep, Warnings AgainstBarking And HowlingDumbThose Who Were IgnorantPetsawakening

And I am coming to get together all nations and tongues: and they will come and will see my glory.

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingGathering Other NationsMan's Thoughts

Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Illustrations OfDebaucheryTongueLukewarmnessDissipationMighty in its influence

Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

Verse ConceptsManipulationMen DeceivingFriendsFriendship And TrustDeceptionLying And Deceitlieing

See, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who let their tongues say, He has said.

Verse Conceptsprophets

And this will be the disease which the Lord will send on all the peoples which have been warring against Jerusalem: their flesh will be wasted away while they are on their feet, their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their tongues in their mouths.

Verse ConceptsPeople RottingSocketsEyes HarmedDiseaseSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

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