Acts 2:3

Verse 3. And there appeared unto them. There were seen by them, or they saw. They were first seen by them in the room before they rested on the heads of the disciples. Perhaps the fire appeared at first as scintillations or coruscations, until it became fixed on their heads. Tongues. glwssai. The word tongue occurs often in the Scriptures to denote the member which is the instrument of taste and speech, and also to denote language or speech itself. It is also used, as with us, to denote that which in shape resembles the tongue. Thus Jos 7:21,24, (in Hebrew,) "a tongue of gold," i.e., a wedge of gold; Jos 10:5; 18:19; Isa 11:15, "The tongue of the sea," i.e., a bay or gulf.