5189 teeth
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Scripture often uses teeth symbolically, to refer to the power of individuals or to human rage (as in the “gnashing of teeth”).

Teeth in a literal sense

In eating

Numbers 11:33 See also Daniel 7:5,7,19; Zechariah 9:7; Revelation 9:8

As an object of beauty

Songs 4:2 See also Genesis 49:12; Songs 6:6

As an object of fear

Job 41:14 See also Deuteronomy 32:24; Job 20:16; Joel 1:6

Teeth used symbolically

To represent offensive weapons

Psalm 57:4; Proverbs 30:14

To symbolise military power

Isaiah 41:15 See also Joel 1:6; Amos 1:3; Habakkuk 3:12

God rescues his people from the teeth of their enemies

Psalm 124:6 See also Job 4:10; Daniel 6:20-21

Breaking the teeth of the wicked ends their power

Psalm 3:7 See also Job 29:17; Psalm 58:6 Enemies are often described as dangerous animals.

Gnashing of teeth

In rage

Acts 7:54 See also Job 16:9; Psalm 35:16; Psalm 37:12

In frustration

Psalm 112:10

In anguish

Matthew 8:12; Matthew 13:42,50; Matthew 22:13; Matthew 24:51; Matthew 25:30; Luke 13:28

In gloating

Lamentations 2:16

Under demonic influence

Mark 9:18

Proverbial sayings about teeth

Job 19:20; Proverbs 10:26; Jeremiah 31:29-30; Ezekiel 18:2

See also

4040  beauty
4508  sickle
4522  threshing
5132  biting
5481  proverb
5789  anger



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