Strong's Hebrew · H8127

שֵׁן

shên · shane

Definitiona tooth (as sharp); specifically ivory; figuratively, a cliff
Derivationfrom H8150 (שָׁנַן); compare H8143 (שֶׁנְהַבִּים)
KJV usagecrag, [idiom] forefront, ivory, [idiom] sharp, tooth.
Occurrences55 in the KJV · 48 verses

שֵׁן in Scripture

Genesis 49:12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. Exodus 21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Exodus 21:27 And if he smite out his manservant' s tooth, or his maidservant' s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. Leviticus 24:20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again . Numbers 11:33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. Deuteronomy 19:21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Deuteronomy 32:24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 1 Samuel 2:13 And the priests' custom with the people was, that , when any man offered sacrifice, the priest' s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; 1 Samuel 14:4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines’ garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. 1 Samuel 14:5 The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah. 1 Kings 10:18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold. 1 Kings 22:39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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