Genesis 10:20
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
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Tongues
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Revelation 17:15
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
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14 occurrences in 12 verses.
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γλῶσσα
glōssa · gloce-sah'
26 times translated as this KJV form58 total Strong's occurrences
the tongue; by implication, a language (specially, one naturally unacquired)
Strong's KJV usage: :--tongue.
Strong's first: Mark 16:17Strong's last: Revelation 17:15
Open full G1100 profile →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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 10:20Strong's last: Jeremiah 23:31
Open full H3956 profile →ἑτερόγλωσσος
heteróglōssos · het-er-og'-loce-sos
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
other- tongued, i.e. a foreigner
Strong's KJV usage: :--man of other tongue.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 14:21Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 14:21
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G1100
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
G1100
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
G1100
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
G1100
Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
G1100
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
G1100
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
G1100
I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
G1100
I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
G1100
Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
G1100
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
G2084
In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
G1100
Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
G1100
If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
G1100
Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
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tongue
TONGUE
TONGUE-GR'AFTING
TUNG'-GR'AFTING, noun A mode of grafting by inserting the end of a cion in a particular manner.
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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