Tooth
שֵׁןStrong’s H8127shen
Appears in 48 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shen is the Hebrew word usually translated “ivory”, “tooth” and “tooth of”. It appears in 48 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.”
Meaning
- Tooth, ivorytooth · tooth, tine (of fork) · ivory · sharp pointed rock
How it's translated
- ivory 10
- a tooth 6
- tooth of 4
- teeth their 4
- teeth its 4
- and teeth of 3
- teeth his 3
- teeth 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 8
- Job 7
- Song of Solomon 4
- 1 Samuel 3
- Proverbs 3
- Ezekiel 3
19 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 49:12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
- Exodus 21:24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
- Exodus 21:27And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
- Leviticus 24:20Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
- Numbers 11:33And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
- Deuteronomy 19:21And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
All 48 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שֵׁן shen · tooth
: tooth 1) tooth, ivory 1a) tooth 1a1) of man, lex talionis, beast 1b) tooth, tine (of fork) 1c) ivory 1c1) as material 1c2) of commerce 1d) sharp pointed rock
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.