the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.); band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.; or (in dual and plural) שֶׂפֶת; probably from
h5595 (סָפָה) or
h8192 (שָׁפָה) through the idea of termination (compare
h5490 (סוֹף))