Strong’s H4973 · Hebrew
מְתַלְּעָה
mᵉthallᵉʻâh · meth-al-leh-aw'
Origin contr. from יָלַע (H3216);
Meaning properly, a biter, i.e. a tooth
In the King James Version cheek (jaw) tooth, jaw.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Job 29:17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- Proverbs 30:14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
- Joel 1:6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.