Strong's H3956 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: לָשׁוֹן (lâshôwn)

Pronunciation: law-shone'

Morphology: n-m

Derivation: or לָשֹׁן (lâshôn); also (in plural) feminine לְשֹׁנָה (lᵉshônâh); from לָשַׁן (lâshan) [H3960];

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)

KJV Renderings: [phrase] babbler, bay, [phrase] evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.

Senses

1. tongue
1. tongue (of men)
2. tongue (literal)
3. tongue (organ of speech)
4. language
5. tongue (of animals)
6. tongue (of fire)
7. wedge, bay of sea (tongue-shaped)

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.