H3956 · לָשׁוֹן
lâshôwn · law-shone' · tongue, language
H3956 (lâshôwn, pronounced law-shone') is the Hebrew word לָשׁוֹן in Strong’s dictionary: 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). It appears 117 times in 115 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- לָשׁוֹן (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- lâshôwn
- Pronunciation
- law-shone'
- Derivation
- or לָשֹׁן; also (in plural) feminine לְשֹׁנָה; from H3960 (לָשַׁן);
- Definition
- 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)
- Rendered in the KJV
- [phrase] babbler, bay, [phrase] evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
117 occurrences in 115 verses (112 with English words of their own, 5 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “tongue” ×22
- “their tongues” ×7
- “your tongue” ×4
- “and my tongue” ×3
- “and their tongues” ×3
- “his tongue” ×3
- “language” ×3
- “my tongue” ×3
By book
Genesis 3 · Exodus 2 · Deuteronomy 1 · Joshua 6 · Judges 1 · 2 Samuel 1 · Nehemiah 1 · Esther 3 · Job 9 · Psalms 35 · Proverbs 19 · Ecclesiastes 1 · Song of Solomon 1 · Isaiah 15 · Jeremiah 6 · Lamentations 1 · Ezekiel 4 · Daniel 1 · Hosea 1 · Micah 1 · Zephaniah 1 · Zechariah 2
First 30 of 115 verses
- Genesis 10:5
- Genesis 10:20
- Genesis 10:31
- Exodus 4:10
- Exodus 11:7
- Deuteronomy 28:49
- Joshua 7:21
- Joshua 7:24
- Joshua 10:21
- Joshua 15:2
- Joshua 15:5
- Joshua 18:19
- Judges 7:5
- 2 Samuel 23:2
- Nehemiah 13:24
- Esther 1:22
- Esther 3:12
- Esther 8:9
- Job 5:21
- Job 6:30
- Job 15:5
- Job 20:12
- Job 20:16
- Job 27:4
- Job 29:10
- Job 33:2
- Job 41:1
- Psalms 5:9
- Psalms 10:7
- Psalms 12:3
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H3956.