מְתַלְּעָה
metala · teeth, fangs
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4973 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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metala (מְתַלְּעָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “teeth, fangs”.
Fangs, jaw teeth: the teeth one bites with.
How to say it
me·ta·la
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The big tusks a beast bites with.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- fangs ×2
- whose jaw teeth ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 29:17
And I broke the fangs of the unjust, and from his teeth I threw down the prey.
- Proverbs 30:14
A generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaw teeth are knives, to devour the afflicted from the earth, and the needy from among mankind.
- Joel 1:6
For a nation has come up against my land, mighty and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness.