Lip
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besides its literal sense (Isa 37:29, etc.), is used in the original (saphah) metaphorically for an edge or border, as of a cup (1 Kg 7:26), a garment (Ex 28:32), a curtain (26:4), the sea (Gen 22:17), the Jordan (2Kg 2:13). To "open the lips" is to begin to speak (Job 11:5); to "refrain the lips" is to keep silence (Ps 409; 1 Pet 3:10). The "fruit of the lips" (Heb 13:15) is praise, and the "calves of the lips" thank-offerings (Hos 14:2). To "shoot out the lip" is to manifest scorn and defiance (Ps 227). Many similar forms of expression are found in Scripture.
This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.
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