stovma stovma, stovmato", tov (apparently equivalent to toma, with sigma "- prefixed, from tevmnw, tetoma, therefore properly, `cutting' (or `cut'; so Etymologicum Magnum 728, 18; others, `calling', etc.; but doubtful, cf. Curtius, sec. 226 b.; Vanicek, p. 1141 and references)); from Homer down; Hebrew hP,; the mouth;1. properly, the mouth as a part of the body: of man, ; ; ; , and often; of animals -- as of a fish, ; of a horse, ; ; of a serpent, f; ; the jaws of a lion, ; ; . Since the thoughts of man's soul find verbal utterance by his mouth, kardiva (`the heart' or soul) and stovma `the mouth' are distinguished: ; Rec. from ; ,; in phrases chiefly of a Hebraistic character, the mouth (as the organ of speech) is mentioned in connection with words and speech, (from ), and words are said to proceed ejk tou' stovmato", (from ); ; ; ; ; tov stovma lalei' tiv, ; on the Hebrew phrase ajnoivgein tov stovma, see ajnoivgw, p. 48{a} bottom hJ a[noixi" tou' stomatou ; stovma prov" stovma lalh'sai (hP,Ala, hP, rB,DI, ) literally, mouth (turned) to mouth (A. V. face to face), ; , (tov stovma prov" tov stovma, of a kiss, Xenophon, mem. 2, 6, 32); God or the Holy Spirit is said to speak diav tou' stovmato" tivno" (cf. Buttmann, 183 (159)), ; ; ,; ; or a person is said to hear a thing diav tou' stovmato", ; or ajpov tou' stovmato" tou', from his own mouth, i. e. what he has just said, ; or ejk tou' stovmato", ; qreusai tiv ejk tou' stovmato" tou', ; tov pneu'ma tou' stovmato" (the breath of his mouth, see pneu'ma, 1 b.), ( (), cf. ); hJ rJomfaiva tou' stomatou, a figure portraying the destructive power of the words of Christ the judge, ; dovlo" or yeu'do" ejn tw'/ stovmati, and (from ); stovma is put for `statements', declarations, in and (); (). didovnai tivni stovma, apt forms of speech (as distinguished from the substance of speech, hJ sofiva), ; stovma for one who has begun (or is about) to spea