peh denotes a bodily mouth or lip and, most often in these verses, the spoken words, commands, or messages issuing from it.

The supplied verses most often use the term for speech as it issues from a speaker—especially words, commands, and prophetic messages—while also showing a bodily mouth or lip in acts such as eating, kissing, and speaking. A further attested use applies it to an edge or rim, including a vessel’s lip and the edge of a sword; a few contexts are too compressed in the translation to specify its contribution more closely.

1. Speech, command, or message from a speaker · dominant

   The construct forms locate speech with its speaker: in 1 Kings 8:15 the APB renders that the LORD "spoke with his mouth to David," while 2 Samuel 14:3 says Joab put words in the woman’s mouth. In 1 Kings 13:21, refusal to heed the LORD is described as rebelling against the LORD’s mouth, and 1 Kings 22:22 places deception in the lip of the prophets.

   1 Kings 8:152 Samuel 14:31 Kings 13:211 Kings 22:221 Kings 17:242 Chronicles 35:22
2. The bodily mouth or lip · common

   The term marks the bodily point involved in eating, observation, contact, or force. In 1 Samuel 14:26 the APB renders that no one put a hand to his mouth; in 1 Samuel 1:12 Eli watches Hannah’s mouth; and in Amos 3:12 a shepherd rescues remains from the mouth of a lion.

   1 Samuel 14:261 Samuel 14:271 Samuel 1:121 Kings 19:182 Kings 4:34Amos 3:12
3. An edge, rim, or opening · occasional

   The term can identify an edge or rim rather than a human or animal body part. In 1 Kings 7:31 the APB repeatedly calls the vessel feature its "lip," including its round form and engravings; in 1 Samuel 15:8 and 2 Kings 10:25 it occurs in the clause rendered "edge of the sword."

   1 Kings 7:311 Samuel 15:82 Kings 10:251 Samuel 22:192 Samuel 15:14
4. Terms in compressed technical expressions · rare

   A small group of verses has a context in which the APB does not make this noun’s individual contribution clear. In 1 Samuel 13:21 the plural absolute form occurs in a statement about a sharpening fee rendered "a pim," while 2 Kings 2:9 renders Elisha’s request as "a double portion of your spirit."

   1 Samuel 13:212 Kings 2:91 Chronicles 12:241 Chronicles 12:33

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly renders the term as "mouth" or "lip" in bodily and speech settings, including "mouth of the LORD" and "word of the LORD in your mouth." In edge contexts it renders "lip" or "edge," but it is a whole-verse translation, and several compressed expressions remain uncertain.