פֶּה peh

Hebrew word for “lip” · Strong’s H6310 · used 498 times in 460 verses

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Meaning

: lip/mouth; peh; 1) mouth;

Senses in the lexicon

• lip (325)
• lip: word (83)
• lip: edge (45)
• lip: according (32)
• lip: opening (11)
• lip: one third (2)

How it is translated

Glosses given for peh in context, with how often each is used:

• mouth 477
• opening 7
• own mouth 4
• like mouth 2
• like the opening 2
• which from mouth 1
• will be in mouth 1
• like the mouth 1
• mouths 1
• belonged to opening 1
• two thirds of a shekel 1

Where it is used

Also in 23 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Joshua 10 (9), Psalms 119 (7), Jeremiah 36 (6), Exodus 4 (5), Numbers 4 (5), Proverbs 10 (5), Genesis 29 (4), Numbers 9 (4), Job 15 (4), Psalms 78 (4)

Forms

• פי 136
• לפי 55
• פיך 34
• בפי 27
• פיו 25
• פה 23
• מפי 22
• פיהו 16
• פיה 15
• ופי 15

Words used with it

Words that share verses with peh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• דָבַר davar “to speak” 64
• דָּבָר davar “word” 65
• שָׂפָה saphah “lips” 31
• חֶרֶב cherev “sword” 37
• לָשׁוֹן lashon “tongue” 25
• פָּתַח patach “to open” 25
• נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 31
• מָלֵא male “to fill” 24
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 35
• שׂוּם sum “to set” 28
• פָּצָה patsah “to open” 13
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 29

Key verses

The verses using peh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Joshua 1:8 — This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is…
• 1 Samuel 2:1 — And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy…
• 1 Kings 17:1 — And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew…
• Job 40:4 — Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
• Psalms 17:3 — Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
• Proverbs 8:13 — The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
• Isaiah 11:4 — But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and…
• Isaiah 29:13 — Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me,…
• Ezekiel 3:17 — Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
• Ezekiel 16:63 — That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast…
• Ezekiel 33:31 — And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth…
• Malachi 2:7 — For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.