Tooth
מַלְתָּעָהStrong’s H4459maltaah (mal-ta-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Maltaah is the Hebrew word usually translated “teeth of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.”
Meaning
- Tooth, great toothteeth, incisors
How it's translated
- teeth of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מַלְתָּעָה maltaah · tooth
1) tooth, great tooth 1a) teeth, incisors
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tooth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TOOTH, noun
plural teeth. [Latin dens.]
- A bony substance growing out of the jaws of animals, and serving as the instrument of mastication.
- Taste; palate.
- A tine; a prong; something pointed and resembling an animal tooth; as the tooth of a rake, a comb, a card, a harrow, a saw, or of a wheel.
All definitions and other forms of “tooth”
TOOTH, verb transitive
To furnish with teeth; as, to tooth a rake.
- To indent; to cut into teeth; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.
- To lock into each other.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.