noun · masculine
odontos
Strong’sG3599
a tooth
stem odont-12 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books5 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Tooth, in the ordinary sense of a tooth in the mouth 1234. It is the word used for the teeth of a locust-like creature 1, for a tooth broken or knocked out 1, for teeth bared or ground in anger or distress 1, and for teeth as a body part generally 3.
In the Greek Old Testament the word is also applied to something shaped like a tooth: the sharp blade of a ploughshare, and a jagged, pointed peak of rock 3.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Strong’s G3599 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidod-ooce
a "tooth"
Fromperhaps from the base of G2068;
King Jamestooth.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
nominative ὀδούς LXX+4th c.BC+; Ionic dialect ὀδών Refs 5th c.BC+:—tooth, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἕρκος ὀδόντων, see at {ἕρκος}; πρίειν ὀδόντας, see at {πρίω}; ὀ. ὀξεῖς incisors, opposed to πλατεῖς, molars, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, γλυκὺς ὀ. ὁ τοῦ πόθου Refs 2nd c.AD+; ὁ τῆς λύπης ὀ. the tooth of grief, Refs 3rd c.AD+
II anything pointed or sharp, tooth, prong, spike, etc., Refs 2nd c.BC+: plural, teeth of a saw, Refs 4th c.BC+; of a comb, Refs 2nd c.AD+; of a cog-wheel, Refs 2nd c.BC+ H.; ploughshare, LXX; ὀ. πέτρας peak, pike,LXX
III second vertebra of the neck or its apophysis (the odontoid process), so called from its shape, Refs 5th c.BC+ (but the first vertebra accusative to Refs 5th c.BC+. (Old present participle Refs 5th c.BC+ ed- (alternating with od- (cf. Armenian utem 'I eat') and d-), the root of ἔδω, ἔδ-μεναι, Latin edo, etc.: cf. Sanskrit accusative dántam 'tooth', Latin dens, Gothic tunpus, etc.: Aeolic dialect ἔδοντες Refs 5th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | odontos | odontois1×ὀδόντες |
| object accusative | odonton1×ὀδόντα | odontoin2×ὀδόντας |
| direct address vocative | odontor | odontoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | odontou1×ὀδόντος | odontoiu7×ὀδόντων |
| to, for dative | odonto | odontoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
odonto is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
12 occurrences, every one of them listed
odonton“tooth”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 5:38… hoti legita; Ofthalmon anti ofthalmou kai odonton anti odontou.… was said, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’
odontou“tooth”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Matthew 5:38… Ofthalmon anti ofthalmou kai odonton anti odontou.… Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’
odontois“teeth”subjectnominative plural1×
Revelation 9:8… trichain hōs trichain gunaikaiu, kai tois odontois autaiu hōs leontoiu ale,… hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions.
odontoin“teeth”objectaccusative plural2×
Mark 9:18… auton, kai afrizatō kai trizatō toin odontoin kai xēranotō; kai legama toi mathētoi …… foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked Your …
Acts 7:54… tai kardiai autoiu kai bruchale toin odontoin epi auton.… were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
odontoiu“teeth”of, belonging togenitive plural7×
Matthew 8:12… tos klauthmos kai tos brugmos toiu odontoiu.… will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 13:42… tos klauthmos kai tos brugmos toiu odontoiu.… will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:50… tos klauthmos kai tos brugmos toiu odontoiu.… will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 22:13… tos klauthmos kai tos brugmos toiu odontoiu.… will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Matthew 24:51… tos klauthmos kai tos brugmos toiu odontoiu.… will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.[’’]
Matthew 25:30… tos klauthmos kai tos brugmos toiu odontoiu.… will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Luke 13:28… tos klauthmos kai tos brugmos toiu odontoiu, hotan horeveia Abraam kai Isaak kai …… will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob …