2001 Translation

CHEILESIN, cheilesin

Sounds Like: KHEI-le-sin

Translations: (to) lips, (with) lips, (on) lips

From the root: ΧΕΙΛΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the lips, the fleshy folds that surround the mouth. It is often used literally, but can also be used metaphorically to refer to speech, utterance, or the edge of something, such as a body of water. In the provided examples, it is used in the context of speech or the physical lips.

Inflection: Dative, Plural, Neuter

Strong’s number: G5491 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 15:2, 16:16

Codex Sinaiticus

• Psalms — 16:1, 21:8, 44:3, 58:8
• Proverbs — 10:8, 16:10, 17:4, 22:11, 26:24
• Sirach — 23:8
• 1 Corinthians — 14:21

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 38:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 27:4, 78:11, 80:4, 98:3, 101:3

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 3:4, 3:5

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Leviticus — 5:4
• 2 Kings — 19:28
• Psalms — 16:1, 21:8, 44:3, 58:8, 105:33, 118:13
• Proverbs — 6:2, 10:8, 13:3, 16:10, 16:23, 16:30, 17:4, 22:11, 22:18, 24:43, 26:24
• Song of Solomon — 7:9
• Job — 2:10
• Sirach — 1:29, 12:16, 23:7
• Isaiah — 29:13
• Ezekiel — 24:17
• Malachi — 2:6

The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments

• Mandate 12 — 4:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 15:8
• Mark — 7:6
• 1 Corinthians — 14:21

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΧΕΙΛΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΙΛΕΩΝ — of lips
• ΧΕΙΛΕΣΙ — (to) lips, (to) a lip, (to) a border, (to) a shore
• ΧΕΙΛΕΩ — of lips, of shores, of brinks
• ΧΕΙΛΕΩΝ — of lips, of a lip, of a shore, of a bank
• ΧΕΙΛΗ — lips, a lip
• ΧΕΙΛΟΣ — lip, a lip, shore, a shore, bank, a bank
• ΧΕΙΛΟΥΣ — (of) a lip, (of) a brink, (of) an edge, (of) a shore, (of) a bank
• ΧΕΙΛΩ — to kiss, to touch with the lips
• ΧΙΛΕΩ — of lips, of a lip, of the lip
• ΧΙΛΕΩΝ — of lips, of a lip, of the lips, of the edge, of the shore
• ΧΙΛΗ — lip, a lip, lips, a shore, a bank, a brim
• ΧΙΛΟΝ — lip, a lip, shore, a shore, edge, an edge

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