# מְתַלְּעָה (metalah)

Israeli respelling: me-tal-ah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4973. 3 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, a biter, i.e. a tooth

King James renderings: cheek (jaw) tooth, jaw.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/metalah-h4973

## Occurrences

- [Job 29:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/17) — And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- [Proverbs 30:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/14) — There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from…
- [Joel 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/6) — For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a gre…