χεῖλος
lip
‘lip’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
3 distinct verses where G5491 appears in the Dative case, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
1 Corinthians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“lip” is the headline sense of the Greek noun χειλος (cheîlos). First canonically at Matthew 15:8, it enters the text early. With 7 verses in 6 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Hebrews, which alone accounts for 29% of its uses. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 7-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5491 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 29%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 29%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 29%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 14%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Lips 6×
- American Standard Version: Lips 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Lips 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lips 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5491 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5491 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5491 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5491 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a lip, of the speaking mouth
- metaph. the sea shore
Word origin
Derived from χασμα (chásma) (G5490) — chasm.
From a form of the same as G5490 ; a lip (as a pouring place); figuratively a margin (of water): - lip shore.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G5491 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| χείλεσίν cheílesín | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 15:8 | 2 |
| χείλη cheílē | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Romans 3:13 | 2 |
| χείλεσιν cheílesin | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 14:21 | 1 |
| χειλέων cheiléōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Hebrews 13:15 | 1 |
| χεῖλος cheîlos | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Hebrews 11:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5491, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- κητος kētos G2785 sea monster
- χαλαω chaláō G5465 to relax
- χαμαι chamaí G5476 to the ground
- χειμων cheimṓn G5494 winter
- χηρα chḗra G5503 widow
- χιων chiṓn G5510 snow
- χωρα chṓra G5561 region
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χειλος appears 149 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 140 verses in 24 books.
- 149
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 140
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 24 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 24 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 11:1 χεῖλος
- Exodus 7:15 χεῖλος
- Leviticus 5:4 χεῖλος
- Numbers 30:7 χεῖλος
- Deuteronomy 2:36 χεῖλος
- Joshua 13:9 χεῖλος
- Judges 7:12 χεῖλος
- 1 Samuel 1:13 χεῖλος
- 1 Kings 7:10 χεῖλος
- 2 Kings 2:13 χεῖλος
- 2 Chronicles 4:5 χεῖλος
- Job 2:10 χεῖλος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5491) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 140. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 11:1 χεῖλος The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
- Genesis 11:6 χεῖλος Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
- Genesis 11:9 χεῖλος Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
- Genesis 22:17 χεῖλος that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
- Genesis 41:3 χεῖλος Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.
- Genesis 41:17 χεῖλος Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:
- Exodus 7:15 χεῖλος Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand by the river's bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.
- Exodus 14:30 χεῖλος Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
- Exodus 26:4 χεῖλος You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling; and likewise shall you make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling.
- Exodus 26:10 χεῖλος You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second coupling.
- Leviticus 5:4 χεῖλος "'Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these.
- Numbers 30:7 χεῖλος and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
- Numbers 30:13 χεῖλος Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
- Deuteronomy 2:36 χεῖλος From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [from] the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us:
- Deuteronomy 3:12 χεῖλος This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities of it, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
- Deuteronomy 4:48 χεῖλος from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon),
- Deuteronomy 23:24 χεῖλος When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.
- Joshua 13:9 χεῖλος from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;
- Judges 7:12 χεῖλος The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the sea-shore for multitude.
- Judges 7:22 χεῖλος They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
- 1 Samuel 1:13 χεῖλος Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
- 1 Kings 7:10 χεῖλος The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
- 1 Kings 7:11 χεῖλος Above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
- 1 Kings 7:12 χεῖλος The great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house.
- 1 Kings 9:15 χεῖλος This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
- 2 Kings 2:13 χεῖλος He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.
- 2 Kings 10:33 χεῖλος from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
- 2 Kings 18:20 χεῖλος You say (but they are but vain words), [There is] counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
- 2 Kings 19:28 χεῖλος Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
- 2 Chronicles 4:5 χεῖλος It was a handbreadth thick; and the brim of it was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.
- Job 2:10 χεῖλος But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.
- Job 8:21 χεῖλος He will still fill your mouth with laughter, Your lips with shouting.
- Job 11:5 χεῖλος But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against you,
- Job 12:20 χεῖλος He removes the speech of those who are trusted, And takes away the understanding of the elders.
- Job 13:6 χεῖλος Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
- Job 15:6 χεῖλος Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.
- Job 16:5 χεῖλος But I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
- Job 27:4 χεῖλος Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
- Job 32:20 χεῖλος I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.
- Job 33:3 χεῖλος My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart; That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
- Job 40:26 χεῖλος
- Psalms 11:3 χεῖλος If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?
- Psalms 11:4 χεῖλος Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
- Psalms 11:5 χεῖλος Yahweh examines the righteous, But the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
- Psalms 13:3 χεῖλος Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
- Psalms 15:4 χεῖλος In whose eyes a vile man is despised, But who honors those who fear Yahweh; He who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn't change;
- Psalms 16:1 χεῖλος Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.
- Psalms 16:4 χεῖλος Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink-offerings of blood I will not offer, Nor take their names on my lips.
- Psalms 20:3 χεῖλος Remember all your offerings, And accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah.
- Psalms 21:8 χεῖλος Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5491) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
