Genesis 11:1
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
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Acts 2:6
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
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5 occurrences in 3 verses.
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לָשׁוֹן
lâshôwn · law-shone'
9 times translated as this KJV form116 total Strong's occurrences
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)
Strong's KJV usage: babbler, bay, evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
Strong's first: Nehemiah 13:24Strong's last: Ezekiel 3:6
Open full H3956 profile →שָׂפָה
sâphâh · saw-faw'
7 times translated as this KJV form176 total Strong's occurrences
the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
Strong's first: Genesis 11:1Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:9
Open full H8193 profile →יְהוּדִית
Yᵉhûwdîyth · yeh-hoo-deeth'
5 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
the Jewish (used adverbially) language
Strong's KJV usage: in the Jews' language.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Kings 18:26Strong's last: Isaiah 36:13
Open full H3066 profile →אֲרָמִית
ʼĂrâmîyth · ar-aw-meeth'
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
(only adverbial) in Aramæan
Strong's KJV usage: in the Syrian language (tongue), in Syriac.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 18:26Strong's last: Isaiah 36:11
Open full H762 profile →διάλεκτος
diálektos · dee-al'-ek-tos
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a (mode of) discourse, i.e. "dialect"
Strong's KJV usage: :--language, tongue.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 2:6Strong's last: Acts 2:6
Open full G1258 profile →דָּבָר
dâbâr · daw-baw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1,425 total Strong's occurrences
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Strong's KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, × any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, chronicles, commandment, × commune(-ication), concern(-ing), confer, counsel, dearth, decree, deed, × disease, due, duty, effect, eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-) ness, glory, harm, hurt, iniquity, judgment, language, lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, × ought, × parts, pertaining, please, portion, power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, × (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, sign, so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, song, speech, × spoken, talk, task, that, × there done, thing (concerning), thought, thus, tidings, what(-soever), wherewith, which, word, work.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 19:3Strong's last: Psalms 19:3
Open full H1697 profile →לָעַז
lâʻaz · law-az'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to speak in a foreign tongue
Strong's KJV usage: strange language.
Strong's first: Psalms 114:1Strong's last: Psalms 114:1
Open full H3937 profile →לִשָּׁן
lishshân · lish-shawn'
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
speech, i.e. a nation
Strong's KJV usage: language.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 3:29Strong's last: Daniel 3:29
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H3956
Lo, 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 whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
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language
LAN'GUAGE, noun [Latin lingua, the tongue, and speech.]
1. Human speech; the expression of ideas by words or significant articulate sounds, for the communication of thoughts. language consists in the oral utterance of sounds, which usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one person communicates his ideas to another. This is the primary sense of language the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of one person to another through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are represented by letters, marks or characters which form words. Hence language consists also in
2. Words duly arranged in sentences, written, printed or engraved, and exhibited to the eye.
3. The speech or expression of ideas peculiar to a particular nation. Men had originally one and the same language but the tribes or families of men, since their dispersion, have distinct languages.
4. Style; manner of expression.
Others for language all their care express.
5. The inarticulate sounds by which irrational animals express their feelings and wants. Each species of animals has peculiar sounds, which are uttered instinctively, and are understood by its own species, and its own species only.
6. Any manner of expressing thoughts. Thus we speak of the language of the eye, a language very expressive and intelligible.
7. A nation, as distinguished by their speech. Daniel 3:29.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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