Tooth
שֵׁןStrong’s H8128shen
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shen is the Aramaic word usually translated “tooth its” and “teeth”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.”
Meaning
- Tooth
How it's translated
- tooth its 2
- and teeth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 7:7In contextAfter this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
- Daniel 7:19In contextThen I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
Aramaic dictionary
שֵׁן shen · tooth
tooth Aramaic of shen (שֵׁן ": tooth" H8127)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.