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by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.
Bible Verse Dictionary
Psalms 140:3 - Under
Psalms 140:3 - They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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They have sharpened | H8150 | שָׁנַן |
[Verb] to point (transitively or intransitively); intensively to pierce; figuratively to inculcate |
their tongues | H3956 | לָשׁוֹן |
[Noun Masculine] the tongue (of man or {animals}) used literally (as the instrument of {licking} {eating} or {speech}) and figuratively ({speech} an {ingot} a fork of {flame} a cove of water) |
like | H3644 | כְּמוֹ |
[Adverb] {as} {thus } so |
a serpent | H5175 | נָחָשׁ |
[Noun Masculine] a snake (from its hiss) |
adders' | H5919 | עַכְשׁוּב |
[Noun Masculine] an asp (from lurking coiled up) |
poison | H2534 | חֵמָה |
[Noun Feminine] heat; figuratively {anger} poison (from its fever) |
is under | H8478 | תַּחַת |
[Noun Masculine] the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially below (often with prepositional prefix {underneath }) in lieu {of} etc. |
their lips | H8193 | שָׂפָה |
[Noun Feminine] 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.) |
Selah | H5542 | סֶלָה |
[Verb] suspension (of {music}) that {is} pause |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.