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Ezekiel 3:26
“And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
לָשׁוֹןlâshôwn · law-shone'
H3956 · Hebrew
H3956 · Hebrew
- Definition
- 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)
- Derivation
- or לָשֹׁן; also (in plural) feminine לְשֹׁנָה; from H3960 (לָשַׁן);
- KJV renderings
- [phrase] babbler, bay, [phrase] evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- לְשֽׁוֹנְ — common noun, both genders, singular, construct
- ךָ֙ — suffix (pronominal), 2nd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 117 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 10:5Genesis 10:20Genesis 10:31Exodus 4:10Exodus 11:7
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read לָשׁוֹן here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.