Strong's #8127: shen (pronounced shane)
from 8150; a tooth (as sharp); specifically (for 8143) ivory; figuratively, a cliff:--crag, X forefront, ivory, X sharp, tooth.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shên
1) tooth, ivory
1a) tooth
1a1) of man, lex talionis, beast
1b) tooth, tine (of fork)
1c) ivory
1c1) as material
1c2) of commerce
1d) sharp pointed rock
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H8150
Usage:
This word is used 55 times:
Amos 3:15: "the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end,"
Amos 4:6: "also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread"
Amos 6:4: "That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat"
Micah 3:5: "my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth"
Zechariah 9:7: "out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even"
