Tooth
מַלְתָּעָהStrong’s H4973maltaah (mal-ta-ah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maltaah is the Hebrew word usually translated “jaws of”, “jaw bones its” and “fangs of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.”
Meaning
- Tooth, great toothteeth, incisors
How it's translated
- jaws of 1
- jaw bones its 1
- and fangs of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Proverbs 1
- Joel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 30:14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
- Joel 1:6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
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.