Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Ecc 10:12) | 4 tn Heb “lips.” |
| (0.70) | (Eze 36:3) | 1 tn Heb “lip of the tongue.” |
| (0.61) | (Pro 13:2) | 1 tn Heb “lips” (so NIV); KJV “mouth.” The term “lips” is a metonymy of cause for what the lips produce: speech. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 120:2) | 3 tn Heb “from a lip of falsehood.” |
| (0.60) | (Psa 34:13) | 2 tn Heb “and your lips from speaking deception.” |
| (0.60) | (Num 30:12) | 2 tn Heb whatever proceeds from her lips.” |
| (0.57) | (Pro 17:7) | 2 tn “a lip of excess.” The term “lip” is a metonymy for what is said. |
| (0.57) | (Pro 10:32) | 3 tn Heb “lips.” The term “lips” is a metonymy of cause for what is said. |
| (0.52) | (Sos 7:9) | 2 tn Or “his lips as he falls asleep.” Heb “the lips of sleepers.” Alternately, “over lips and teeth” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT). |
| (0.52) | (Pro 10:13) | 1 tn Heb “on the lips” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV). The term “lips” is a metonymy of cause for the words spoken by the lips. |
| (0.50) | (Eze 3:5) | 1 tn Heb “deep of lip” (in the sense of incomprehensible). |
| (0.50) | (Lam 3:62) | 1 tn Heb “the lips of my assailants and their thoughts.” |
| (0.50) | (Isa 29:13) | 3 tn Heb “and with their lips they honor me.” |
| (0.50) | (Isa 6:5) | 3 tn Heb “and among a nation unclean of lips I live.” |
| (0.50) | (Pro 20:15) | 2 tn Heb “lips of knowledge.” The term “lips” is a metonymy for speaking, and “knowledge” could be either an attributive genitive or objective genitive: “knowledgeable lips.” Lips that impart knowledge are the true jewel to be sought. |
| (0.50) | (Pro 12:22) | 2 tn Heb “lips of lying.” The genitive שָׁקֶר (shaqer, “lying”) functions as an attributive genitive: “lying lips.” The term “lips” functions as a synecdoche of part (= lips) for the whole (= person): “a liar.” |
| (0.50) | (Pro 7:21) | 3 tn Heb “smoothness of her lips”; cf. NAB “smooth lips”; NASB “flattering lips.” The term “lips” is a metonymy of cause representing what she says. The noun חֵלֶק (kheleq) “smoothness” is the counterpart to the verb “flatter” is 7:5. |
| (0.50) | (Pro 4:24) | 3 tn Heb “deviousness of lips put far from you.” |
| (0.50) | (Psa 63:5) | 3 tn Heb “and [with] lips of joy my mouth praises.” |
| (0.50) | (Psa 40:9) | 3 tn Heb “Look! My lips I do not restrain.” |
