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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) pl. of Tooth.

2. (v. i.) To breed, or grow, teeth.

3. (n.) Plural of Tooth.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

CHEEK TEETH

(methalle`ah, transposed from malta`ah (only in Psalm 58:6), literally "the biter," "crusher," "molar," "jaw-teeth," "great teeth" (Job 29:17 m; Joel 1:6)).

Figurative: The word is used as a synonym of reckless strength and cruelty.

JAW; JAWBONE; JAW TEETH

jo, jo'-bon (lechi, "cheek (bone)," "jaw (bone)"): In Job 41:2, the Revised Version (British and American) gives "pierce his jaw through with a hook" for the King James Version "bore his jaw through with a thorn" (see HOOK; LEVIATHAN). Psalm 22:15, "My tongue cleaveth to my jaws (malqoach)," is descriptive of the effect of a fever or physical torture, a dryness and a horrible clamminess. Malqochayim is an ancient dual form meaning the two jaws, and, metaphorically, malqoach indicates that which is caught between the jaws, booty, prey, including captives (Numbers 31:11, 26, 32 Isaiah 49:24 f).

Figurative:

(1) Of the power of the wicked, with a reference to Divine restraint and discipline: "I brake the jaws (Hebrew "great teeth") of the unrighteous" (Job 29:17 Proverbs 30:14); compare Psalm 58:6, "Break out the great teeth (malta`oth, "jaw teeth") of the young lions, O Yahweh." Let the wicked be deprived of their ability for evil; let them at least be disabled from mischief. Septuagint reads "God shall break," etc. (Compare Edmund Prys's Metrical Paraphrase of the Psalms, in the place cited.) "A bridle. in the jaws of the peoples" (Isaiah 30:28; compare 2 Kings 19:28) is descriptive of the ultimate check of the Assyrian power at Jerusalem, "as when a bridle or lasso is thrown upon the jaws of a wild animal when you wish to catch and tame him" (G.A. Smith Isaiah, I, 235). Compare Ezekiel 29:4 (concerning Pharaoh); 38:4 (concerning Gog), "I will put hooks in (into) thy jaws."

(2) Of human labor and trials, with a reference to the Divine gentleness: "I was to them as they that lift up the yoke on their jaws" (Hosea 11:4), or `take the yoke off their jaws,' as the humane driver eased the yoke with his hands or `lifted it forward from neck to the jaws'; or it may perhaps refer to the removal of the yoke in the evening, when work is over.

Jawbone (Judges 15:15).

See RAMATH-LEHI.

M. O. Evans

Greek

5149. trizo -- to cry, chirp, to grind the teeth
... to cry, chirp, to grind the teeth. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: trizo Phonetic
Spelling: (trid'-zo) Short Definition: I grate, gnash Definition: I grate ...
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1030. brugmos -- a biting, a gnashing of teeth
... a biting, a gnashing of teeth. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration:
brugmos Phonetic Spelling: (broog-mos') Short Definition: a grinding or gnashing ...
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1031. brucho -- to bite, to gnash
... Speech: Verb Transliteration: brucho Phonetic Spelling: (broo'-kho) Short Definition:
I grind or gnash Definition: I grind or gnash, as with the teeth for rage ...
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3599. odous -- a tooth
... 3599 ("tooth, teeth") is also used metaphorically: a) of the particular level of
compensation or recompense needed in a situation (Mt 5:38); and, b) for how ...
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3679. oneidizo -- to reproach
... 3679 (from a primitive root meaning "to upbraid, revile, like in showing one's teeth,"
K. Wuest) -- properly, to (), reproach; mock (curse); insult, (create ...
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Topical Bible Verses

Proverbs 10:26
As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
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Acts 7:54
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
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Luke 13:28
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
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Mark 9:18
And wherever he takes him, he tears him: and he foams, and gnashes with his teeth, and pines away: and I spoke to your disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
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Matthew 25:30
And cast you the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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Matthew 8:12
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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Matthew 13:50
And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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Matthew 22:13
Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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Psalm 112:10
The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
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Matthew 24:51
And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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Strong's Hebrew

4973. methalleoth -- teeth
... 4972, 4973. methalleoth. 4974 . teeth. Transliteration: methalleoth Phonetic
Spelling: (meth-al-leh-aw') Short Definition: fangs. ...
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8127. shen -- tooth, ivory
... 8126, 8127. shen. 8128 . tooth, ivory. Transliteration: shen Phonetic
Spelling: (shane) Short Definition: teeth. Word Origin from ...
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8128. shen -- tooth
... 8127, 8128. shen. 8129 . tooth. Transliteration: shen Phonetic Spelling: (shane)
Short Definition: teeth. Word Origin (Aramaic) corresponding ...
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6750. tsalal -- to tingle, quiver
... root (identical with tsalal through the idea of vibration); to tinkle, ie Rattle
together (as the ears in reddening with shame, or the teeth in chattering with ...
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2757. charits -- a cut, thing cut, sharp instrument
... Or charits {khaw-reets'}; from charats; properly, incisure or (passively) incised
(compare charuwts); hence, a threshing-sledge (with sharp teeth): also a ...
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2851. chittith -- terror
... 2850, 2851. chittith. 2852 . terror. Transliteration: chittith Phonetic
Spelling: (khit-teeth') Short Definition: terror. Word Origin ...
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2742. charuwts -- sharp, diligent
... incisive; hence (as noun masculine or feminine) a trench (as dug), gold (as mined),
a threshing-sledge (having sharp teeth); (figuratively) determination; also ...
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2786. charaq -- to gnash or grind
... root Definition to gnash or grind NASB Word Usage gnash (2), gnashed (2), gnashes
(1). gnash. A primitive root; to grate the teeth -- gnash. 2785, 2786. ...
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1665. Gittith -- a musical term of unc. meaning.
... Gittith. 1666 . a musical term of unc. meaning. Transliteration: Gittith Phonetic
Spelling: (ghit-teeth') Short Definition: Gittith. Word Origin fem. ...
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Library

Thy Teeth are as a Flock of Sheep which Go up from the Washing ...
... CHAPTER VI. 5. Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof
every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them. ...
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Thy Teeth are Like a Flock of Sheep that are Even Shorn, which ...
... 2. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the
washing; whereof every one bears twins, and none is barren among them. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song of songs of solomon/2 thy teeth are like.htm

This Objection Also is Cast in Our Teeth by Celsus...
... Chapter XXX. This objection also is cast in our teeth by Celsus� This
objection also is cast in our teeth by Celsus: "From such ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter xxx this objection also.htm

Thy Throat is Like the Best Wine, Fit for My Beloved to Drink, and ...
... CHAPTER VII. 9. Thy throat is like the best wine, fit for my beloved to drink,
and to be dwelt upon with delight by his lips and teeth. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song of songs of solomon/9 thy throat is like.htm

What the Servants of Christ Should Say in Reply to the Unbelievers ...
... The City of God.Book I. Chapter 29."What the Servants of Christ Should Say in Reply
to the Unbelievers Who Cast in Their Teeth that Christ Did Not Rescue ...
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Of the Outer Limbs of Man, and their Use.
... cannot, however, by itself alone fulfil the office of speaking, unless it strikes
its edge against the palate, unless aided by striking against the teeth or by ...
/.../lactantius/on the workmanship of god/chap x of the outer limbs.htm

Allow Me to Fall a Prey to the Wild Beasts.
... God. I am the wheat of God, and let me be ground by the teeth of the wild
beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of Christ. ...
/.../ignatius/the epistle of ignatius to the romans/chapter iv allow me to fall.htm

Saint George Kills the Enchanter Osmond.
... He is thirty feet in height, his head three times the size of that of the largest
ox, his eyes larger than two sunflowers, and his teeth, with which he can ...
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The Locust-Swarms
... They had come up 'a nation strong and without number, whose teeth were like the
teeth of a lion, and his cheek-teeth like those of a strong lion. ...
/.../kingsley/the good news of god/sermon xx the locust-swarms.htm

Joel's Rhapsody of the Locust Plague
... For a nation is come up upon my land, Strong, and without number; His teeth are
the teeth of a lion, And he hath the jaw teeth of a great lion. ...
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Thesaurus

Teeth (50 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) pl. of Tooth. 2. (vi) To breed, or grow, teeth.
3. (n.) Plural of Tooth. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. CHEEK TEETH. ...
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Jaw-teeth (4 Occurrences)
Jaw-teeth. Jaws, Jaw-teeth. Jazer . Multi-Version Concordance
Jaw-teeth (4 Occurrences). Job 29:17 And I break the jaw ...
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Cheek-teeth (1 Occurrence)
Cheek-teeth. Cheeks, Cheek-teeth. Cheer . Multi-Version Concordance
Cheek-teeth (1 Occurrence). Psalms 58:6 Break their ...
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Gnash (12 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Hebrews harak, meaning "to grate the teeth", (Job
16:9; Psalm 112:10; Lamentations 2:16), denotes rage or sorrow. ...
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Gnashing (10 Occurrences)
... There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT
NAS NIV). ... There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth. ...
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Jaw (6 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the
mouth. 2. (n.) Hence, also, the bone itself with the teeth and covering. ...
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Cheek (9 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. CHEEK TEETH. ... (3) methalle`ah (Job 29:17), better
"cheek teeth" (which see). HLE Luering. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Bite (13 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to
lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust ...
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Weeping (237 Occurrences)
... There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS
YLT NAS NIV). ... There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth. ...
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Weep (97 Occurrences)
... There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." (Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS
YLT NAS RSV NIV). ... There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth. ...
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Bible Concordance

Teeth (50 Occurrences)

Matthew 8:12 but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 13:42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 13:50 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 22:13 Then the king said to the servants,'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 24:51 and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 25:30 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 27:44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
(KJV WBS)

Mark 9:18 and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 13:28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrown outside.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 7:54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 9:8 They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 49:12 His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 11:33 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 32:24 They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 2:13 The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

1 Samuel 13:21 yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
(See JPS)

Job 4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 13:14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Job 16:9 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 19:20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 29:17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 40:24 Will anyone take him when he is on the watch, or put metal teeth through his nose?
(BBE)

Job 41:14 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 3:7 Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 35:16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 37:12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 57:4 My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 58:6 Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 112:10 The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 124:6 Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Proverbs 10:26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Proverbs 30:14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Song of Songs 4:2 Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Song of Songs 6:6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing; of which every one has twins; none is bereaved among them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Song of Songs 7:9 And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.
(BBE RSV NIV)

Isaiah 41:15 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 31:29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 31:30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.
(BBE)

Lamentations 2:16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Lamentations 3:16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 18:2 What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Daniel 7:5 Behold, another animal, a second, like a bear; and it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth: and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Daniel 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the animals that were before it; and it had ten horns.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Daniel 7:19 Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was diverse from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joel 1:6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Amos 1:3 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;
(See NIV)

Amos 4:6 "I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Micah 3:5 Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Zechariah 9:7 I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; and he also will be a remnant for our God; and he will be as a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Teeth

Teeth: General Scriptures Concerning

Teeth: Gnashing (Grinding) of, Usually Signifying Anger or Extreme Pain

Related Terms

Jaw-teeth (4 Occurrences)

Cheek-teeth (1 Occurrence)

Gnash (12 Occurrences)

Gnashing (10 Occurrences)

Jaw (6 Occurrences)

Cheek (9 Occurrences)

Bite (13 Occurrences)