Strong’s H3956

לָשׁוֹן

lashon · 115 Old Testament occurrences

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

Every Old Testament occurrence

• Genesis 10:5By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
• Genesis 10:20These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
• Genesis 10:31These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
• Exodus 4:10And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow…
• Exodus 11:7But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth pu…
• Deuteronomy 28:49The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou sh…
• Joshua 7:21When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, th…
• Joshua 7:24And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and…
• Joshua 10:21And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
• Joshua 15:2And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
• Joshua 15:5And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the…
• Joshua 18:19And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at t…
• Judges 7:5So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog…
• 2 Samuel 23:2The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
• Nehemiah 13:24And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each peo…
• Esther 1:22For he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their la…
• Esther 3:12Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had command…
• Esther 8:9Then were the king’s scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and…
• Job 5:21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
• Job 6:30Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
• Job 15:5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
• Job 20:12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
• Job 20:16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
• Job 27:4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
• Job 29:10The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
• Job 33:2Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
• Job 41:1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
• Psalms 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with the…
• Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
• Psalms 12:3The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
• Psalms 12:4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
• Psalms 15:3He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
• Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
• Psalms 31:20Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of to…
• Psalms 34:13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
• Psalms 35:28And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
• Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
• Psalms 39:1I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
• Psalms 39:3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
• Psalms 45:1My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
• Psalms 50:19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
• Psalms 51:14Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
• Psalms 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Psalms 52:4Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
• Psalms 55:9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
• Psalms 57:4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their…
• Psalms 64:3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
• Psalms 64:8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
• Psalms 66:17I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
• Psalms 68:23That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
• Psalms 71:24My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hur…
• Psalms 73:9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
• Psalms 78:36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
• Psalms 109:2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
• Psalms 119:172My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
• Psalms 120:2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
• Psalms 120:3What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
• Psalms 126:2Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for…
• Psalms 137:6If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
• Psalms 139:4For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
• Psalms 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
• Psalms 140:11Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
• Proverbs 6:17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
• Proverbs 6:24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
• Proverbs 10:20The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
• Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
• Proverbs 12:18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
• Proverbs 12:19The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
• Proverbs 15:2The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
• Proverbs 15:4A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
• Proverbs 16:1The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
• Proverbs 17:4A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
• Proverbs 17:20He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
• Proverbs 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
• Proverbs 21:6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
• Proverbs 21:23Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
• Proverbs 25:15By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
• Proverbs 25:23The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
• Proverbs 26:28A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
• Proverbs 28:23He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
• Proverbs 31:26She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
• Ecclesiastes 10:11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
• Song of Solomon 4:11Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Leban…
• Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
• Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom sha…
• Isaiah 11:15And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and sha…
• Isaiah 28:11For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
• Isaiah 30:27Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, an…
• Isaiah 32:4The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
• Isaiah 33:19Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not under…
• Isaiah 35:6Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the…
• Isaiah 41:17When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel…
• Isaiah 45:23I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every t…
• Isaiah 50:4The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth mo…
• Isaiah 54:17No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is…
• Isaiah 57:4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a se…
• Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
• Isaiah 66:18For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
• Jeremiah 5:15Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation wh…
• Jeremiah 9:3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to e…
• Jeremiah 9:5And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themsel…
• Jeremiah 9:8Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth hi…
• Jeremiah 18:18Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise,…
• Jeremiah 23:31Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
• Lamentations 4:4The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto the…
• Ezekiel 3:5For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
• Ezekiel 3:6Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, the…
• Ezekiel 3:26And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a re…
• Ezekiel 36:3Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might…
• Daniel 1:4Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and suc…
• Hosea 7:16They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: t…
• Micah 6:12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
• Zephaniah 3:13The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed…
• Zechariah 8:23Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even s…
• Zechariah 14:12And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume awa…