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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Tongues (the Gift)
• Tongue
Scofield Reference Index
• Tongues
Thompson Chain Reference
• Tongues
• Tongue Restrained
The Topic Concordance
• Tongues
Dictionaries
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Tongues
• Tongue
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Speaking in Tongues
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Tongues
• Tongue
• Interpreting of Tongues
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Tongues, Gift of
• Tongues, Confusion of
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Tongues, Gift of
• Tongues, Confusion of
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Tongue
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Tongue
• Double-Tongued
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Tongues, Gift of
• Tongues, Confusion of
• Confusion of Tongues
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Tongues Gift of
• Tongue (2)
• Tongue
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Tongues, Gift of
• Tongues, Confusion of
• Syriac, Syrian Tongue
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Tongues, Gift of
• Sing, My Tongue, the Saviour's Glory
• Sing, My Tongue, the Glorious Battle
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People's Bible Dictionary
• Tongues
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Tongues The ift of
• Tongues The Confusion of
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Tongue
• Double-Tongued
• Tongue
Wilson's Bible Types
• Tongue
• Double Tongue
Webster Dictionary
• Tonguing
• Tongued
• Tongue-Tied
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Confusion of Tongues
• Gift of Tongues
• Tongue
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Gift of Tongues
• Tongue
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Confusion of Tongues
• Gift of Tongues
• Interpretation of Tongues
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Tongue
• Tongues Confusion of
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Confusion of Tongues.
• Gift of Tongues
• Tongue
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Gift of Tongues
Lexicons
• ܠܶܫܳܢܳܐ
Berry's NT Synonyms
• Sins of the Tongue
• γλῶσσα
• διάλεκτος
• δίλογος
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• אֲרָמִי
• הַס , הָסָה
• חָרַשׁ , חָרֵשׁ
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This word is taken in three different senses.

1. For the material tongue, or organ of speech, James 3:5 .

2. For the tongue or language that is spoken in any country, Deuteronomy 28:49 . ( See LANGUAGE. )

3. For good or bad discourses, Proverbs 12:18; Proverbs 17:20 . Tongue of the sea signifies a gulf. To gnaw the tongue, Revelation 16:10 , is a token of fury, despair, and torment. The gift of tongues was that which God granted to the apostles and disciples assembled at Jerusalem on the day of pentecost, Acts 2. The tongue of angels, a kind of hyperbole made use of by St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:1 .