Strong's Concordance
Original word: שָׂפָה
Transliteration: saphah
Definition (short): lips
Definition (full): the lip, language, a margin
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: from an unused word
Definition: lip, speech, edge
NASB Translation: babbling (2), bank (10), binding (2), brim (9), edge (17), empty (2), gossip* (1), language (6), lip (1), lip service (1), lips (100), mere (1), seashore* (7), shore (1), speech (12), talk (1), talkative (1), words (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Or (in dual and plural) sepheth {sef-eth'}; probably from caphah or shaphah through the idea of termination (compare cowph); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.) -- band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, ((sea-))shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
see HEBREW caphah
see HEBREW shaphah
see HEBREW cowph
References
KJV:
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
NASB:
Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.
KJV:
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
NASB:
The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.
KJV:
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
NASB:
"Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
KJV:
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
NASB:
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.