noun · neuter
cheilem
Strong’sG5491
a lip, mouth, shore
stem cheil-7 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books2 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
χεῖλος, -ους, τό, gen. pl., -εων (v. Bl., § 8, 4; Thackeray, Gr., I, 151),
[in LXX chiefly for שָׂפָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5491 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhi'-los
a lip (as a pouring place); figuratively, a margin (of water)
Fromfrom a form of the same as G5490;
King Jameslip, shore.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(Doric dialect χῆλος Refs 3rd c.BC+, Aeolic dialect χέλλος Refs 4th c.AD+, εος, τό: plural, genitive χειλῶν LXX+4th c.BC+:—lip, Refs 8th c.BC+ laughed with the lips only, Refs 8th c.BC+; χείλεα μέν τ᾽ ἐδίην᾽, ὑπερῴην δ᾽ οὐκ ἐδίηνε wetted the lips, but not the palate, i.e. drank sparingly,Refs 5th c.BC+; πειθώ τις ἐπεκάθιζεν ἐπὶ τοῖς χ., of Pericles, Refs 5th c.BC+; χείλεσιν ἀμφιλάλοις, of incessant talk, Refs 5th c.BC+; δάκνων τὰ χ., of one in a difficulty, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐπὶ τοῖς χείλεσι τὰς ψυχὰς ἔχοντες 'with their hearts in their mouths', Refs 1st c.AD+; ἀπὸ χειλέων, opposed to ἀπὸ καρδίας, Refs 1st c.AD+on the surface only, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ἐπ᾽ ἄκρου τοῦ χ. on the tip of one's tongue, Refs; προσαρμόσαι τὰ χ. (i.e. τῇ κύλικι) Refs; προσαρμόζειν τὰ χ., χείλη προσεγγίσαι χείλεσιν, of persons kissing, Refs; χείλεσιν διερρυηκόσιν with gaping lips, LXX+5th c.BC+; ἐν χ. ἑτέρων λαλεῖν, i.e. in strange speech, LXX+NT
2 of horses, Refs 5th c.BC+: of birds, bill, beak, Refs 5th c.BC+
II metaphorically of things, edge, brink, rim, of a bowl, χρυσῷ δ᾽ ἐπὶ χείλεα κεκράανται Refs 8th c.BC+; of a ditch, Refs 8th c.BC+; of the ocean, LXX+6th c.BC+; of rivers, lakes, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the whorls, Refs 5th c.BC+; αὐλαίας, τείχους, LXX+2nd c.BC+; of the womb, Refs 4th c.BC+; of a wound, Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | cheilem | cheileim |
| of, belonging to genitive | cheileu | cheileiu1×χειλέων |
| to, for dative | cheile | cheilei3×χείλεσίν |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
cheile is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
cheileiu“lips”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Hebrews 13:15… pantou to theo, houtem atō karpon cheileiu homologarōntoiu te onome autou.… sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
cheilei“lips”to, fordative plural3×
Matthew 15:8Tos laos houtos tei cheilei min timatō, tas de kardias autoiu …‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from …
Mark 7:6… grafotē hoti Houtos tos laos tei cheilei min timatō, tas de kardias autoiu …… These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from …
1 Corinthians 14:21… grafotē hoti En heteroglōssoi kai en cheilei heteroiu lalami to lao houto, kai …… Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people …
cheileim2×
Romans 3:13… autoiu doliale, ios aspidaiu hupo teim cheileim autoiu,… venom of vipers is on their lips.”
1 Peter 3:10… pauatar tan glōssan apo kakoseu kai cheileim teu mē lalara dolon,… his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
cheilem1×
Hebrews 11:12“shore”… hōs tas ammoas tas para tem cheilem tau thalassau tas anarithmētas.… sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.