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Lexicon :: Strong's H8127 - šēn

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שֵׁן
Transliteration
šēn
Pronunciation
shane
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2422a

Strong’s Definitions

שֵׁן shên, shane; from H8150; compare H8143 a tooth (as sharp); specifically ivory; figuratively, a cliff:—crag, × forefront, ivory, × sharp, tooth.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 55x

The KJV translates Strong's H8127 in the following manner: teeth (31x), tooth (10x), ivory (10x), sharp (2x), crag (1x), forefront (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 55x
The KJV translates Strong's H8127 in the following manner: teeth (31x), tooth (10x), ivory (10x), sharp (2x), crag (1x), forefront (1x).

  1. tooth, ivory

    1. tooth

      1. of man, lex talionis, beast

    2. tooth, tine (of fork)

    3. ivory

      1. as material

      2. of commerce

    4. sharp pointed rock

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֵׁן shên, shane; from H8150; compare H8143 a tooth (as sharp); specifically ivory; figuratively, a cliff:—crag, × forefront, ivory, × sharp, tooth.
STRONGS H8127: Abbreviations
† I. שֵׁן noun feminine1 Samuel 2:13 (yet masculine 1 Samuel 14:5 compare Dr) tooth, ivory; — שׁ׳ absolute Exodus 21:24 +, construct Exodus 21:27 +, שֶׁן׳ Deuteronomy 32:24; suffix שִׁנּם Exodus 21:27; dual שִׁנַּיִם Proverbs 10:26, construct שִׁנֵּי Jeremiah 31:29 +; suffix שִׁנֵּיהֶם Psalm 124:6, שִׁנֵּימוֺ Psalm 58:7, etc.; —
1. tooth:
a. of man, Exodus 21:27 (3 times in verse) (E), Numbers 11:33 (J), Genesis 49:12 (poem in J), Amos 4:6; Songs 4:2; Songs 6:6, רֹעָה שׁ׳ Proverbs 25:19, see II. רעע 2; of lex talionis, תַּחַת שׁ׳ שׁ׳ Exodus 21:24 (E), Leviticus 24:20 (H), שֵׁן בְּשׁ׳ Deuteronomy 19:21; irritated by acid Proverbs 10:26, dulled by it (in proverb of inherited guilt) Jeremiah 31:29, 30; Ezekiel 18:2; חָרַק שׁ׳ Lamentations 2:16; Job 16:9; Psalm 35:16; Psalm 112:10, see חָרַק; אֶשָּׂא בְשָׂרִי בְשִׁנָּ֑י Job 13:14 = risk my life (strike out עַלמָֿה, dittograph; || נַפְשִׁי בְּכַפִּי אָשִׂים); בְּעוֺר שִׁנָּ֑י Job 19:20, see מָלַט Hithp. (other conjectures see Di Bi Bu Du).
b. of beasts : Deuteronomy 32:24, crocodile Job 41:6, locusts Joel 1:6 (teeth of lions); especially figurative of false prophets Micah 3:5, of foes Zechariah 9:7, oppressors Job 29:17, wicked Job 4:10; Psalm 3:8; Psalm 58:7; Psalm 124:6; of their weapons Proverbs 30:14; Psalm 57:5; of Israel shattered by י׳.
c. tooth of a fork, tine, 1 Samuel 2:13 (compare DrSm. 291); of cliff, שֵׁן הַסֶּלַע 1 Samuel 14:4 (twice in verse), compare Job 39:28, הַשֵּׁן 1 Samuel 14:5.
2. ivory, of commerce, קַרְנוֺת שֵׁן Ezekiel 27:15 (i.e. tusks?); as material, מִטּוֺת שׁ׳ Amos 6:4, כִּסֵּאשֿׁ׳ 1 Kings 10:18 2 Chronicles 9:17, בֵּית הַשּׁ׳ 1 Kings 22:39, compare Amos 3:15, הֵיכְלֵי שׁ׳ Psalm 45:9, also Ezekiel 27:6; Songs 5:15; Songs 7:5.

שׁנן (√ of following; see Biblical Hebrew [שָׁנַן], שֵׁן).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

49:12

Exodus

21:24; 21:24; 21:27; 21:27; 21:27

Leviticus

24:20

Numbers

11:33

Deuteronomy

19:21; 32:24; 32:24

1 Samuel

2:13; 2:13; 14:4; 14:5; 14:5

1 Kings

10:18; 22:39

2 Chronicles

9:17

Job

4:10; 13:14; 16:9; 19:20; 29:17; 39:28; 41:6

Psalms

3:8; 35:16; 45:9; 57:5; 58:7; 58:7; 112:10; 124:6; 124:6

Proverbs

10:26; 10:26; 25:19; 30:14

Song of Songs

4:2; 5:15; 6:6; 7:5

Jeremiah

31:29; 31:29; 31:30

Lamentations

2:16

Ezekiel

18:2; 27:6; 27:15

Joel

1:6

Amos

3:15; 4:6; 6:4

Micah

3:5

Zechariah

9:7

H8127

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Strong's Number H8127 matches the Hebrew שֵׁן (šēn),
which occurs 55 times in 48 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:12 - His eyes shall be more cheering than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:24 - [fn] eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27 - And if he should smite out the tooth of his man-servant, or the tooth of his maid-servant, he shall send them away free for their tooth's sake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:20 - bruise for bruise, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as any one may inflict a blemish on a man, so shall it be rendered to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:33 - The flesh was yet between their teeth, before it failed, when the Lord was wroth with the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:21 - Thine eye shall not spare him: thou shalt exact life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 - They shall be consumed with hunger and the devouring of birds, and there shall be irremediable [fn]destruction: I will send forth against them the teeth of wild beasts, with the rage of serpents creeping on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:13 - And the priest's claim from every one of the people that sacrificed was this: the servant of the priest came when the flesh was in seething, and a flesh-hook of three teeth was in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:4 - And in the midst of the passage whereby Jonathan sought to pass over to the encampment of the Philistines, there was both a sharp rock on this side, and a [fn]sharp rock on the other side: the name of the one was Bases, and the name of the other Senna.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:5 - The one way was northward to one coming to Machmas, and the other way was southward to one coming to Gabae.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:18 - And the king made a great ivory throne, and gilded it with pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:39 - And the rest of the acts of Achaab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities which he [fn]built, behold, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:17 - And the king made a great throne of ivory, and he gilded it with pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:10 - The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:14 - while I may take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:9 - In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:20 - My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in my teeth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:17 - And I broke the jaw-teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:28 - on a crag of a rock, and in a secret place?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:14 - (LXX 41:6) Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 3:7 - (LXX 3:8) Arise, Lord; deliver me, my God: for thou hast smitten all who were without cause mine enemies; thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:16 - (LXX 34:16) They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously, they gnashed their teeth upon me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:12 - (LXX 36:12) The sinner will watch for the righteous, and gnash his teeth upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:8 - (LXX 44:9) Myrrh, and stacte, and cassia are exhaled from thy garments, and out of the ivory palaces,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:4 - (LXX 56:5) and he has delivered my soul from the midst of lions' whelps: I lay down to sleep, though troubled. As for the sons of men, their teeth are arms and missile weapons, and their tongue a sharp sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:6 - (LXX 57:7) God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:10 - (LXX 111:10) The sinner shall see and be angry, he shall gnash his teeth, and consume away: the desire of the sinner shall perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:6 - (LXX 123:6) Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:26 - As a sour grape is hurtful to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so iniquity hurts those that practise it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:19 - The way of the wicked and the foot of the transgressor shall perish in an evil day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:14 - A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw-teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:2 - Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing; all of them bearing twins, and there is not a barren one among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:14 - His hands are as turned gold set with beryl: his belly is an ivory tablet on a sapphire stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:6 - Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none barren among them: thy lips are as a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 - (LXX 7:5) Thy neck is as an ivory tower; thine eyes are as pools in Esebon, by the gates of the daughter of many: thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, looking toward Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:29 - (LXX 38:29) In those days they shall certainly not say, The fathers ate a sour grape, and the children's teeth were set on edge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:30 - (LXX 38:30) But every one shall die in his own sin; and the teeth of him that eats the sour grape shall be set on edge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:16 - Ain. All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up: moreover this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:16 - And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, he has fed me with ashes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:2 - Son of man, what mean ye by this parable among the children of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten unripe grapes, and the children's teeth have been set on edge?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:6 - They made thine oars of wood out of the land of Basan; thy sacred utensils they made of ivory, thy shady houses of wood from the isles of Chetiim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:15 - The sons of the Rhodians were thy merchants; from the islands they multiplied thy merchandise, even elephants' teeth: and to them that came in thou didst return thy prices,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:6 - For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion's teeth, and their back teeth those of a lion's whelp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:15 - I will crush and smite the turreted-house upon the summer-house; and the ivory-houses shall be destroyed, and many other houses also, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:6 - And I will give you dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet ye returned not to me, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:4 - who sleep upon beds of ivory, and live delicately on their couches, and eat kids out of the flocks, and sucking calves out of the midst of the stalls;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:5 - Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that lead my people astray, that bite with their teeth, and proclaim peace to them; and when nothing was put into their mouth, they raised up war against them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:7 - And I will take their blood out of their mouth, and their abominations from between their teeth; and these also shall be left to our God, and they shall be as a captain of a thousand in Juda, and Accaron as a Jebusite.
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