Psalm 140:3
Strong's Lexicon
They make their tongues
לְשׁוֹנָם֮ (lə·šō·w·nām)
Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3956: 1) tongue 1a) tongue (of men) 1a1) tongue (literal) 1a2) tongue (organ of speech) 1b) language 1c) tongue (of animals) 1d) tongue (of fire) 1e) wedge, bay of sea (tongue-shaped)

as sharp
שָֽׁנֲנ֣וּ (šā·nă·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 8150: 1) to sharpen, whet 1a) (Qal) to whet, sharpen 1b) (Piel) to sharpen, teach (incisively) 1c)(Hithpolel) to be pierced

as
כְּֽמוֹ־ (kə·mōw-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 3644: adv 1) like, as, the like of which conj 2) when, according as, as it were

serpents;
נָ֫חָ֥שׁ (nā·ḥāš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5175: 1) serpent, snake 1a) serpent 1b) image (of serpent) 1c) fleeing serpent (mythological)

the venom
חֲמַ֥ת (ḥă·maṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2534: 1) heat, rage, hot displeasure, indignation, anger, wrath, poison, bottles 1a) heat 1a1) fever 1a2) venom, poison (fig.) 1b) burning anger, rage

of vipers
עַכְשׁ֑וּב (‘aḵ·šūḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5919: 1) asp, viper 1a) asp, viper 1b) perhaps spider

is on
תַּ֖חַת (ta·ḥaṯ)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 8478: 1) the under part, beneath, instead of, as, for, for the sake of, flat, unto, where, whereas n m 1a) the under part adv accus 1b) beneath prep 1c) under, beneath 1c1) at the foot of (idiom) 1c2) sweetness, subjection, woman, being burdened or oppressed (fig) 1c3) of subjection or conquest 1d) what is under one, the place in which one stands 1d1) in one's place, the place in which one stands (idiom with reflexive pronoun) 1d2) in place of, instead of (in transferred sense) 1d3) in place of, in exchange or return for (of things mutually interchanged) conj 1e) instead of, instead of that 1f) in return for that, because that in compounds 1g) in, under, into the place of (after verbs of motion) 1h) from under, from beneath, from under the hand of, from his place, under, beneath

their lips.
שְׂפָתֵ֣ימוֹ (śə·p̄ā·ṯê·mōw)
Noun - fdc | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8193: 1) lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding 1a) lip (as body part) 1b) language 1c) edge, shore, bank (of cup, sea, river, etc)

Selah
סֶֽלָה׃ (se·lāh)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 5542: 1) to lift up, exalt 1a) Selah 1a1) a technical musical term probably showing accentuation, pause, interruption

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

Young's Literal Translation
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder [is] under their lips. Selah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They make their tongues as sharp as a snake’s bite; viper’s venom is under their lips. Selah

New American Standard Bible
They sharpen their tongues as a serpent; Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

King James Bible
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison [is] under their lips. Selah.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's; the poison of vipers is on their lips.

New Living Translation
Their tongues sting like a snake; the venom of a viper drips from their lips. Interlude

English Standard Version
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah

New American Standard Bible
They sharpen their tongues as a serpent; Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

King James Bible
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They make their tongues as sharp as a snake's bite; viper's venom is under their lips. Selah

International Standard Version
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Interlude

NET Bible
Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper's venom is behind their lips. (Selah)

American Standard Version
They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders poison is under their lips. Selah

English Revised Version
They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah

Young's Literal Translation
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder is under their lips. Selah.
















Cross References
Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

James 3:8
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Psalm 57:4
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

Psalm 64:3
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

Lamentations 3:62
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 140:2
Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

Psalm 140:1
Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;

Psalm 139:24
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
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