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שֵׁןshên/shane/
HebrewH812755 occurrences (KJV)

a tooth (as sharp); specifically ivory; figuratively, a cliff

KJV renders it: crag, [idiom] forefront, ivory, [idiom] sharp, tooth.

Where it appears(showing the first 48 of 55)

  • Gen 49:12His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.
  • Exod 21:24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
  • Exod 21:27If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
  • Lev 24:20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.
  • Num 11:33While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
  • Deut 19:21Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
  • Deut 32:24They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
  • 1 Sam 2:13The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;
  • 1 Sam 14:4Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
  • 1 Sam 14:5The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
  • 1 Kgs 10:18Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.
  • 1 Kgs 22:39Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
  • 2 Chr 9:17Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
  • Job 4:10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
  • Job 13:14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
  • Job 16:9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
  • Job 19:20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
  • Job 29:17I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
  • Job 39:28On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.
  • Job 41:14Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
  • Ps 3:7Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
  • Ps 35:16Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
  • Ps 37:12The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
  • Ps 45:8All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.
  • Ps 57:4My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Ps 58:6Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
  • Ps 112:10The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.
  • Ps 124:6Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
  • Prov 10:26As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.
  • Prov 25:19Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth, or a lame foot.
  • Prov 30:14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
  • Song 4:2Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.
  • Song 5:14His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
  • Song 6:6Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing; of which every one has twins; no one is bereaved among them.
  • Song 7:4Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
  • Jer 31:29“In those days they shall say no more, “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
  • Jer 31:30But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
  • Lam 2:16All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
  • Lam 3:16He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
  • Ezek 18:2“What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
  • Ezek 27:6Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the islands of Kittim.
  • Ezek 27:15The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many islands were the market of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.
  • Joel 1:6For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.
  • Amos 3:15I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end,” says Yahweh.
  • Amos 4:6“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
  • Amos 6:4Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall;
  • Mic 3:5Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
  • Zech 9:7I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; and he also will be a remnant for our God; and he will be as a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.