Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4973
מְתַלְּעָה
methalleahmeth-al-leh-aw'
jaw
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉthallᵉʻâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4973is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4973
properly, a biter, i.e. a tooth
The King James renders it: cheek (jaw) tooth, jaw.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
methalleah is rendered "jaw". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 29:17I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
Job 29:17מְתַלְּע֣וֹת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and fangs of1
- jaw bones its1
- jaws of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּֽמְתַלְּע֥וֹת1
- מְתַלְּע֣וֹת1
- מְֽתַלְּעֹ֫תָ֥יו1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncfpc
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcfpc/Sp3ms
Job
one use
I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
- מְתַלְּע֣וֹתmetaleotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: jaws of
Proverbs
one use
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.
- מְֽתַלְּעֹ֫תָ֥יוmetaleotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: jaw bones its
Joel
one use
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.
- וּֽמְתַלְּע֥וֹתumetaleotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and fangs of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.