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# מְתַלְּעוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4973

**teeth** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

teeth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4973/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְתַלְּעוֹת²: n.f.pl. teeth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4973/#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: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 29:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.17/#tree)

וָֽ֭אֲשַׁבְּרָה מְתַלְּע֣וֹת עַוָּ֑ל וּ֝מִשִּׁנָּ֗יו אַשְׁלִ֥יךְ טָֽרֶף׃

*Word for word:* and I broke \[the\].fangs of.\[the\].unjust.person and from teeth his I.threw \[the\].prey

*JPS 1917:* And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

[Proverbs 30:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.14/#tree)

דּ֤וֹר ׀ חֲרָב֣וֹת שִׁנָּיו֮ וּֽמַאֲכָל֪וֹת מְֽתַלְּעֹ֫תָ֥יולֶאֱכֹ֣ל עֲנִיִּ֣ים מֵאֶ֑רֶץ וְ֝אֶבְיוֹנִ֗ים מֵאָדָֽם׃פ

*Word for word:* a.generation \[are\].swords teeth its and.\[are\] knives fangs its to devour afflicted.\[people\] from.\[the\] earth and needy.\[people\] from humankind

*JPS 1917:* There is a generation whose teeth are as swords, and their great teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4973.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4973/): 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).