Tongue

English: Tongue — organ of speech; language.

Key Scriptures (hover for pop-up): Judges 7:5; Job 6:30, 20:12, 16; Psalm 5:9, 15:3, Proverbs 6:24, 10:20, 31, 12:18, 15:2, Isaiah 41:1; Daniel 3:29; 1 John 3:18

Note: The tongue as the organ of speech is stressed in Scripture to be a source of both praise and blame, to be kept under control, on account of its capacity for evil words.

Hebrew: לָשׁוֹן (Lashon) — tongue, language.

Greek: γλῶσσα (Glōssa) — tongue, speech, languag.

Latin: lingua — tongue, speech.