Strong’s
H4973Noun, feminine3 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Job 29:17מְתַלְּעוֹת
I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
- Proverbs 30:14מְתַלְּעֹתָיו
there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
- Joel 1:6וּמְתַלְּעוֹת
For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
מְתַלְּעוֹת n.f.pl. teeth
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.