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Proverbs 10:21

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Masoretic Text 1524

H8193 The lips שׂפתי

H6662 of the righteous צדיק

H7462 feed ירעו

H7227 many רבים

H191 but fools ואוילים

H2638 for want בחסר

H3820 of wisdom לב

H4191 die ימותו׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H3820 wisdom

H2638 want

for

H4191 die

H191 fools

but

H7227 many

H7462 feed

H6662 righteous

the

H8193 lips

The

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H8193

Hebrew: שָׂפָה

Transliteration: sâphâh

Pronunciation: saw-faw'

Part of Speech: Noun Feminine

Bible Usage: {band} {bank} {binding} {border} {brim} {brink} {edge} {language} {lip} {prating} ([sea-]) {shore} {side} {speech} {talk} [vain] words.

Definition:

Probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication language; by analogy a margin (of a {vessel} {water} {cloth} etc.)

1. lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding

a. lip (as body part)

b. language

c. edge, shore, bank (of cup, sea, river, etc)

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906