Then they said, “We’ll call the girl and find out what she wants to do.” ¹ 

Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity ¹  shuts its mouth. ² 

When the godly see this, they rejoice, and every sinner ¹  shuts his mouth.

She opens her mouth ¹  with wisdom, and loving instruction ²  is on her tongue.

Egypt is like a beautiful young cow. But northern armies will attack her like swarms of stinging flies. ¹ 

As she continued praying to ¹  the Lord, Eli was watching her mouth.

This is the way ¹  of an adulterous ²  woman: she eats and wipes her mouth ³  and says, “I have not done wrong.” ⁴ 

So now, you are banished ¹  from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah’s men, and all their goods.

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning.

Don’t let the current overpower me! Don’t let the deep swallow me up! Don’t let the pit ¹  devour me! ² 

So Death ¹  will open up its throat, and open wide its mouth; ²  Zion’s dignitaries and masses will descend into it, including those who revel and celebrate within her. ³ 

He then said, “This woman represents wickedness,” and he pushed her down into the basket and placed the lead cover on top.

But if the Lord does something entirely new, ¹  and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up ²  along with all that they have, and they ³  go down alive to the grave, ⁴  then you will know that these men have despised the Lord!”

or what he did to Dathan and Abiram, ¹  sons of Eliab the Reubenite, ²  when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of the Israelite camp ³  and swallowed them, their families, ⁴  their tents, and all the property they brought with them. ⁵ 

Inside the stand was a round opening that was a foot-and-a-half deep; it had a support that was two and one-quarter feet long. ¹  On the edge of the opening were carvings in square frames. ²