16 occurrences in 12 translations

'Jaws' in the Bible

This is the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether it is an ox, a sheep, or a goat; the priests are to be given the shoulder, jaws, and stomach.

Verse ConceptsSheepCheeksFood For Priests Defined

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

Verse ConceptsTeethDentistryBreaking TeethIndividuals Saving Others

Indeed, He lured you from the jaws of distressto a spacious and unconfined place.Your table was spread with choice food.

Verse ConceptsMessianic BanquetTablesFat Of Animals

Who can uncover the surface of his garment? who can come within his double jaws?

Verse ConceptsHorsesOuter GarmentsScales

Who can open his jaws,surrounded by those terrifying teeth?

Verse ConceptsMouthsTeethOther References To Mouths

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Verse ConceptsTongueFeverThings Stuck TogetherCreatures Returning To DustGod KillingGod Killing Individuals

Keep me from the jaws of the trap which they have set for me,And from the snares of those who do iniquity.

Verse ConceptsHuntingSnares Laid for PeopleEscaping The TrapProtection From EnemiesProtection And Safety

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

Verse ConceptsKnifesKnivesTeethOppressorsRace

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throatand opens wide its enormous jaws,and down go Zion’s dignitaries, her masses,her crowds, and those who carouse in her!

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheThe Glory Of ManThe Fact Of Death

The Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west;And they devour Israel with gaping jaws.In spite of all this, His anger does not turn awayAnd His hand is still stretched out.

Verse ConceptseastHand Of GodGod's HandEast And WestGod's Hands Stretched Outsyria

And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

Verse ConceptsBridlesdrossHorsesSiftingSievingBinding As AnimalsLike A Flood

But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

Verse ConceptsThings Stuck TogetherGod Lifting People

And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

Verse ConceptsHorsesCoercionCausing People To TurnOther References To MouthsEzekiel Invasion

I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

Verse ConceptsGod's attitude towards peopleKindnessCordsRopesYokesDivine AttractionGod Going DownGod Feeds All The EarthGod Freeing CaptivesGod Has GuidedLike MenLove

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened and empowered me, so that through me the [gospel] message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear it; and I was rescued from the mouth of the lion.

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In NtAfflicted SaintsBitingLionsMouthsOutsidersSelf RespectStrength, SpiritualDivine Assistance, OfferedGod Strengthening PeopleDeliverance From LionsGod Has Been With YouStrengthened Through ChristempowermentGod Calling Jew And Gentile

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