And so it was that from this one man, and he was already impotent, there were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven in number and as innumerable as the grains of sand along the shore (cheilos | χεῖλος | acc sg neut) of the sea

In the Law it is written, “By people with strange tongues and by the lips (cheilesin | χείλεσιν | dat pl neut) of foreigners will I speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me, says the Lord.”

Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they deceive; the poison of asps is under their lips (cheilē | χείλη | acc pl neut);

And he said to them, “Isaiah prophesied accurately about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors me with their lips (cheilesin | χείλεσιν | dat pl neut), but their heart is far from me.

‘This people honors me with their lips (cheilesin | χείλεσιν | dat pl neut), but their hearts are far from me.

Besides all this, between us and you a great chasm (chasma | χάσμα | nom sg neut) has been put in place, so that those wishing to cross over from here to you are not able, and no one can cross from there to us.’

Although I have many other things to write to you, I do not want to use paper (chartou | χάρτου | gen sg masc) and ink; instead, I hope to be with you and speak face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran (Charran | Χαρράν | dat sg fem). And after his father died, God had him move to this land in which you are now living.

And Stephen said: “My brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran (Charran | Χαρράν | dat sg fem),

to the praise of his glorious grace with which he has highly favored (echaritōsen | ἐχαρίτωσεν | aor act ind 3 sg) us in the Beloved.