Lip <1,,5491, cheilos>
is used (a) of the organ of speech, Mat 15:8, Mar 7:6, where "honoring with the lips," besides meaning empty words, may have reference to a Jewish custom of putting to the mouth the tassel of the tallith (the woollen scarf wound round the head and neck during prayer), as a sign of acceptance of the Law from the heart; Rom 3:13, 1Co 14:21 (from Isa 1:28-12, speaking of the Assyrian foe as God's message to disobedient Israel); Heb 13:15, 1Pe 3:10; (b) metaphorically, of "the brink or edge of things," as of the sea shore, Heb 11:12, lit., "the shore (of the sea)."
