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# מְתַלְּעֹות

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4459

**teeth** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

teeth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4459/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְתַלְּעוֹת²: n.f.pl. teeth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4459/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.pl. teeth (AV RV jaw-teeth) (perhaps gnawers, v. √);—teeth, incisors, late (always ‖ שִׁנַּיִם): cstr. מ׳ Jb 29:17 and (of lion) Jo 1:6; sf. מְתַלְּעֹתָיו Pr 30:14. Also cstr. מַלְתְּעוֹת ψ 58:7.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] teeth (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 58:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.7/#tree)

אֱ‍ֽלֹהִ֗ים הֲרָס־שִׁנֵּ֥ימוֹ בְּפִ֑ימוֹ מַלְתְּע֥וֹת כְּ֝פִירִ֗ים נְתֹ֣ץ ׀ יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* O.God break.away teeth their in mouth their \[the\].teeth of.young.lions break.off O.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth; break out the cheek-teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4459/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).