cheilos · lip

What it means

cheilos (χεῖλος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “lip”.

The shore.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The mouth's edge used in speech; what one says.
2. The edge of the sea, where the sand lies.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• lips ×6
• shore ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Hebrews×2
• 1 Peter×1

• Matthew 15:8

  ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me;

• Mark 7:6

  But he said to them, “Isaiah prophesied well about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

• Romans 3:13

  An open grave is their throat; with their tongues they deceive; the venom of asps is under their lips;

• 1 Corinthians 14:21

  In the law it is written: By people of other tongues and by the lips of others I will speak to this people, and not even so will they listen to me, says the Lord.

• Hebrews 11:12

  Therefore also from one man, and that a man as good as dead, there were born descendants as the stars of heaven in number, and as the countless sand by the shore of the sea.

• Hebrews 13:15

  Through him, then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.

• 1 Peter 3:10

  For Whoever wants to love life and to see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;