לָשׁוֹן lâshôwn

Meaning

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)

In the King James Version: [phrase] babbler, bay, [phrase] evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.

Derivation: or לָשֹׁן; also (in plural) feminine לְשֹׁנָה; from H3960 (לָשַׁן);

Where it is used

• Psalms 140:3 They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
• Psalms 140:11 May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.
• Proverbs 6:17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
• Proverbs 6:24 to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
• Proverbs 10:20 The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked has little worth.
• Proverbs 10:31 The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be cut out.
• Proverbs 12:18 Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
• Proverbs 12:19 Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.
• Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool spouts folly.
• Proverbs 15:4 A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
• Proverbs 16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
• Proverbs 17:4 A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive tongue.
• Proverbs 17:20 The one with a perverse heart finds no good, and he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.
• Proverbs 18:21 Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
• Proverbs 21:6 Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
• Proverbs 21:23 He who guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from distress.
• Proverbs 25:15 Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
• Proverbs 25:23 As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.
• Proverbs 26:28 A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.
• Proverbs 28:23 He who rebukes a man will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue.
• Proverbs 31:26 She opens her mouth with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
• Ecclesiastes 10:11 If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
• Song of Solomon 4:11 Your lips, my bride, drip sweetness like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the aroma of Lebanon.
• Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
• Isaiah 5:24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
• Isaiah 11:15 The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
• Isaiah 28:11 Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
• Isaiah 30:27 Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
• Isaiah 32:4 The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently.
• Isaiah 33:19 You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
• Isaiah 35:6 Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
• Isaiah 41:17 The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
• Isaiah 45:23 By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.
• Isaiah 50:4 The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
• Isaiah 54:17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
• Isaiah 57:4 Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,
• Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
• Isaiah 66:18 “And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.
• Jeremiah 5:15 Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.
• Jeremiah 9:3 “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
• Jeremiah 9:5 Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.
• Jeremiah 9:8 Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
• Jeremiah 18:18 Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
• Jeremiah 23:31 “Yes,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and proclaim, ‘The LORD declares it.’”
• Lamentations 4:4 The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
• Ezekiel 3:5 For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
• Ezekiel 3:6 not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
• Ezekiel 3:26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.
• Ezekiel 36:3 therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
• Daniel 1:4 young men without blemish, handsome, gifted in all wisdom, knowledgeable, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king’s palace—and to teach them the language and literature of the Chaldeans.
• Hosea 7:16 They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.
• Micah 6:12 For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
• Zephaniah 3:13 The remnant of Israel will no longer do wrong or speak lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. But they will feed and lie down, with no one to make them tremble.”
• Zechariah 8:23 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
• Zechariah 14:12 And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.