שֵׁן shên

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: crag, [idiom] forefront, ivory, [idiom] sharp, tooth.

Derivation: from H8150 (שָׁנַן); compare H8143 (שֶׁנְהַבִּים)

Where it is used

• Genesis 49:12 His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.
• Exodus 21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
• Exodus 21:27 And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
• Leviticus 24:20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.
• Numbers 11:33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.
• Deuteronomy 19:21 You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
• Deuteronomy 32:24 They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
• 1 Samuel 2:13 or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling
• 1 Samuel 14:4 Now there were cliffs on both sides of the pass that Jonathan intended to cross to reach the Philistine outpost. One was named Bozez and the other Seneh.
• 1 Samuel 14:5 One cliff stood to the north toward Michmash, and the other to the south toward Geba.
• 1 Kings 10:18 Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
• 1 Kings 22:39 As for the rest of the acts of Ahab, along with all his accomplishments and the ivory palace and all the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
• 2 Chronicles 9:17 Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
• Job 4:10 The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
• Job 13:14 Why do I put myself at risk and take my life in my own hands?
• Job 16:9 His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
• Job 19:20 My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
• Job 29:17 I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
• Job 39:28 He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag.
• Job 41:14 Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
• Psalms 3:7 Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
• Psalms 35:16 Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
• Psalms 37:12 The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
• Psalms 45:8 All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad.
• Psalms 57:4 My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
• Psalms 58:6 O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
• Psalms 112:10 The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.
• Psalms 124:6 Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
• Proverbs 10:26 Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.
• Proverbs 25:19 Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
• Proverbs 30:14 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.
• Song of Solomon 4:2 Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
• Song of Solomon 5:14 His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is polished ivory bedecked with sapphires.
• Song of Solomon 6:6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
• Song of Solomon 7:4 Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
• Jeremiah 31:29 “In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’
• Jeremiah 31:30 Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.
• Lamentations 2:16 All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
• Lamentations 3:16 He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
• Ezekiel 18:2 “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
• Ezekiel 27:6 Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; of wood from the coasts of Cyprus they made your deck, inlaid with ivory.
• Ezekiel 27:15 The men of Dedan were your clients; many coastlands were your market; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.
• Joel 1:6 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.
• Amos 3:15 I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.
• Amos 4:6 “I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
• Amos 6:4 You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
• Micah 3:5 This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:
• Zechariah 9:7 I will remove the blood from their mouths and the abominations from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for our God; they will become like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.